I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWINAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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