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  • We can celebrate how style places us in our survival's hands when we see how the grand gown of allure really does look best accessorized with the bare feet of resilience and resolve.

    S.X. Rosenstock: Sade at Honda Center: Style as Enlightenment S.X. Rosenstock 2011

  • We can celebrate how style places us in our survival's hands when we see how the grand gown of allure really does look best accessorized with the bare feet of resilience and resolve.

    S.X. Rosenstock: Sade at Honda Center: Style as Enlightenment S.X. Rosenstock 2011

  • Madly in love, I remembered survival's first rule: our surroundings.

    Level Shilo Morlang 2012

  • The one and only time, in fact; the streets are almost quiet, and cyclists can look up at their surroundings rather than down and from side to side for raw survival's sake.

    Best of the London Festival of Architecture 2010

  • One can imagine the mindless bureaucrat sitting in a drab army office calculating the number of calories the average five-year-old, fifteen-year-old, and sixty-year-old requires to exist in bare survival's gray wretchedness.

    Ahmed Moor: Breaking the Israeli-Egyptian Siege of Gaza 2010

  • It might be the only thing to do for survival's sake (if survival is that important to you), but it wouldn't be "moral" and it wouldn't be "heroic."

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • It might be the only thing to do for survival's sake (if survival is that important to you), but it wouldn't be "moral" and it wouldn't be "heroic."

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • I think there can be some survival's guilt involved in the burning picture's scene too.

    Supernatural: Abandon All Hope - Pink Raygun.com 2009

  • At times, I've wondered what might become possible if all experiences of breaking could be honored this way -- if the wounds and wear of time were recognized as survival's beauty.

    Melanie Drane: "There Is a Crack in Everything; That's How the Light Gets in" 2009

  • For its very survival's sake, America must re-examine old presuppositions and release itself from many things that for centuries have been held sacred.

    Dr. King Spanks Obama: Part 3 2009

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