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Only the fittest will survive.

Charles Darwin

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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Adapt Advantage Change Environment Fundamental Identity Lose Powerful Species
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Animal Consideration Equality
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
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Experiment Fools Love
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
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
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
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Evolution God
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
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
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
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
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

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