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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. -- Carl Sagan
Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old. -- Nell Newman
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. -- Samuel Beckett
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. -- T. S. Eliot
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. -- Wangari Maathai
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. -- Jean Dubuffet
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -- Ronald Reagan
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. -- Thomas Huxley
Extinction is not an event, it is a chain reaction! -- Vadhan
Extinction is established when people only choose to exist without living -- Constance Chuks Friday
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. -- Bill Gaede
With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean. -- Jonathan Maberry
War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre -- Robert Graves
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character. -- Charles Darwin
Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me." -- Ibn Ata Allah
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid. -- Noam Chomsky
How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished? -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. -- Rabbi Hillel
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. -- Rabbi Hillel
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. -- Vernor Vinge
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -- Ronald Reagan
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. -- Nick Clooney
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. -- Barbara Block
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. -- J. G. Ballard
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. -- Susan Sontag
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. -- George C. Williams
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. -- Lester B. Pearson
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem. -- Li Bingbing
Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches. -- Arthur Levitt
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. -- Calvin Coolidge
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own. -- Paul Hawken
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy. -- Brian Perkins
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet. -- Paul Johnson
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet. -- Derrick Jensen
There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction -- John Foster Dulles
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen
Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. -- Werner Herzog
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event. -- Elon Musk
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. -- Asa Gray
At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. -- Whittaker Chambers
We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for. -- Paul Watson
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. -- David Suzuki
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans. -- Cameron Russell
The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the equivalent energy of the dinosaur-killing collision between Earth and an asteroid 65 million years ago. Whatever damage Jupiter sustained, one thing is for sure: it's got no dinosaurs left. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.' -- Nathan Myhrvold
Education without execution is extinction -- Bo Sanchez
One in eight plant species face extinction. -- David Attenborough
Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. -- Ian Somerhalder
There is no place in nature for extinction. -- Lucretius
To return to nature is to embrace extinction. -- Mark X.
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction. -- Gregory Keyes
There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction. -- Karen Russell
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. -- Darren Shan
We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. -- Wayne Pacelle
Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. -- Samuel Adams
Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year. -- Alan Smith
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. -- Homer Hulbert
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. -- Vladimir Lenin
Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world. -- Steve Irwin
I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction. -- John Keegan
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. -- Ian Tattersall
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. -- Ernest Becker
But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide. -- George MacDonald
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. -- Ambrose Bierce
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction. -- Richard Ford
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. -- Vladimir Lenin
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. -- David Mitchell
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. -- David Foreman
We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. -- Rob Nixon
I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction. -- Marco Pantani
What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren? -- Robert Pyle
Distinction is the outcome of living, while extinction is the outcome of merely existing without living -- Constance Chuks Friday
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. -- Robert T. Bakker
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction. -- Jasper Fforde
If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. -- Edward Teller
Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man. -- Louie Psihoyos
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. -- David Suzuki
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily. -- Kenneth Lacovara
Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction. -- Justin Broadrick
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. -- Eric Hoffer
Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. -- Joel Garreau
Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now. -- Jonathan Schell
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. -- Joyce Carol Oates
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. -- Wade Davis
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. -- Ezra Pound
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. -- Wade Davis
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. -- Stephen Jay Gould
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction. -- Peter Drucker
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. -- Thomas Hardy
I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops. -- Dan Gable
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants. -- Wayne Pacelle
Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine. -- Anne Sexton
... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species? -- Brian D. McLaren
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Fur fashion conjures a strange rapport between humans and beasts; humans pose frequently in fur while their furry cousins often pose for extinction -- Martin Dansky
People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. -- Brian Halligan
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction. -- David Mitchell
We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago. -- Jeff Corwin
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend. -- Walter Benjamin
All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates. -- Matthew Arnold
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike. -- Sheryl Crow
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction. -- David Remnick
Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction. -- Jay Severin
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide. -- Heston Blumenthal
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs. -- E. O. Wilson
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction. -- Rusty Schweickart

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