The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWINIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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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.
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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.
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