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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Charles Darwin

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cause Greatness Insitution Misery Nature Poor Poverty Sin
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Dare Discover Inspirational Life Man Time Value Wasted Time
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN

Affection Heart Man Science Stone
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chief Plant Travel View
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
CHARLES DARWIN

Important Shield Sword Victory

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