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/ˌsɛlfˌpɹɛzɜˈɹ.veɪ.ʃən/ · noun
The instinctive behaviour that protects oneself from harm..
I'm here to tell you want to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick.
Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
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Self-preservation means The instinctive behaviour that protects oneself from harm..
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I'm here to tell you want to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick.
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