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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Charles Darwin

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Greatness One Liner Power Steady
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.
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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Change Prove Record Species
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Animal Collaboration History Human
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Appearance Language Species
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Alone Existence Life Relationship
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Goodness Man Nature Selection
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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Body Die Inch Insect Talk
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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Adapt Change Inspirational Intelligence Species Strong Survival
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover

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