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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Charles Darwin

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attack Fame Love Truth
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Ability Animal Deep Difference Fundamental Happiness Man Misery Pain Pressure
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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Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Goodness Man Nature Selection
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
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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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
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
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Constitution Moral
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Friendship Man Measure Worth
We are optimists, until we are not.
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One Liner Optimism
I am not the least afraid to die.
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Afraid Beast Die One Liner
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Change Prove Record Species
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Animal Consideration Equality
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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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Animal Collaboration History Human
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection

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