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The willing horse is always overworked.

Charles Darwin

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
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.
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Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
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.
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Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Advise Clear Ignorance Perceive
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
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Age Give Up Religion
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Attribution Creature Live Love Man
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Constitution Moral
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Cause Greatness Insitution Misery Nature Poor Poverty Sin
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Length Man Noble Quality
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWIN

Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service

The willing horse is always overworked.

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