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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.

Charles Darwin

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
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
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Feeling Hopeless Ignorance Immensity Man Thinking
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
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Appearance Language Species
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Desert Life Love Trial
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
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
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
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
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
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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