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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

We don't support him on the fact he was fighting but I support him as my son. I just hope he survives ... I'd like to see him again. I still love him.

David Hicks

Our studies indicate that the trend that is the defining characteristic of human evolution - the growth of brain size and complexity - is likely still going on. If our species survives for another million years or so, I would imagine that the brain by then would show significant structural differences from the human brain of today.

Bruce T. Lahn

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.

William Maxwell

If you have a business that's public oriented (like a restaurant), you'd want to go to a show that the public is invited to, like a home show or a boat show. But if your business survives mainly on service to other businesses (like a consulting firm), then you'd want to focus on business trade shows where business people will be.

Shane Adams

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game. Neither one of us wants to lose that position. It will be a fight out there, and whoever survives will win the game.

Monique Currie

The cornerstones of your life are family, religion, philanthropy and compassion. Your relationship with your partner is often destined to be a permanent loving one that survives all obstacles.

Blair Gorman

Every market is crowded and competitive, ... and everyone survives based on whether we want to visit that person everyday.

Martin Short

They may start seeing several observations that are of course better than nothing, but the big picture is still going to be that he's had a massive stroke. The damage is already there and I still would stick to the opinion that his prognosis is very, very poor even if he survives.

Dr. Keith Siller

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

So at this point we can hope if he survives that he will reflect and be able to clear up these things, these questions, that we have, and certainly if he is a suspect, hopefully he would be willing to tell us where Elizabeth is.

Rick Dinse

We are basically hoping he survives and that he has some kind of ability to get some rehab so he can have some useful function again. But we are talking about the basics, we are talking very basic things. The complexity of this man, and what he did for a living, this is not to even be considered now. This is absolutely unrealistic at this time.

Dr. Keith Siller

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.

Robert Lowell

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Alfred Kazin

I began to see the character more as a metaphor for how a person survives and manages to maintain his innocence. I just love the bravery and elegance with which he faces the violence in the world.

Neil Jordan

There's a will to ensure that our company not only survives but has an opportunity to become great again.

Anne M. Mulcahy

For every community that survives and succeeds, there are probably five or 10 or more that fail. There are a lot of barriers.

Parke Burgess

The good thing is we're still in the playoffs and playing on Tuesday. Friday [against Chamberlain was a minor setback. Our kids know we have to come out strong and be prepared. Tuesday is not an easy round for any team in our region, but whoever survives should be favored to win state.

Stephanie Ferlita

I thought, 'He's done.' If he survives at all he will probably be in a vegetative state.

Gary Graham

The best word to describe her was gracious. She was a wonderful lady and will be very sadly missed. I just hope he survives until the 27th of this month, when he will be 93 years old.

James Callaghan

Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. . . . He is the life of every party . . .

Hal Boyle

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Dorothy Thompson

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Brent Plater

I just hope she survives the pregnancy with the broken ribs. I asked if they do C-sections and they said they can't.

Lori Weber

Our language is disappearing. I hope [it] survives so my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will grow up to it.

Jacque Sequichie

He's not going to survive this. If you're his family, you hope he survives the night.

Dr. David Brown

I hope he survives. We really feared for his life.

Ross Greenburg

The culture survives. It's survived slavery. It's survived everything so far?. I don't think you can stop the dance. I don't think you can drown the dance. We dance at funerals, and now we have to dance at our own funeral.

Quint Davis

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

Jerry Goldsmith

Our studies indicate that the trend that is the defining characteristic of human evolution -- the growth of brain size and complexity -- is likely still going on. If our species survives for another million years or so, I would imagine that the brain by then would show significant structural differences from the human brain of today.

Bruce T. Lahn

Reasoning without knowledge depends on working out what is most reasonable to believe. What is most reasonable to believe is the view which best survives adversary debate.

Paul Woodruff

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Ernest Becker

Part of the excitement about these 24-hour festivals is seeing where they will go. It will be interesting to see how everyone survives it.

Eric Kanagy

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it . . .

Edward Everett Hale

The fairest things have fleetest end,/ Their scent survives their close:/ But the rose's scent is bitterness/ To him that loved the rose!

Edward Thomas