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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

Charles Darwin

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
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
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
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
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Blind Follow Inspirational Lead Men
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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Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
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
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Face Glad Hold Nature Bright One Liner
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
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Important Shield Sword Victory
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agnostic Correction Description Mind State

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

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