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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Charles Darwin

The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Essence Follow Independence Instinct Reason
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
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
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
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.
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Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Friendship Man Measure Worth
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Advise Clear Ignorance Perceive
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

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