Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWINThe 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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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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