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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.

Charles Darwin

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWIN

Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
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
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
CHARLES DARWIN

Life Listen Music Poetry Rule Week
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Beget Confidence Frequent Ignorance Knowledge
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Fact False High Injurious Progress Science
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Age Give Up Religion
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.
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Adapt Change Inspirational Intelligence Species Strong Survival
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
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Length Man Noble Quality
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Affection Heart Man Science Stone
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
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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Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
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
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
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWIN

Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWIN

Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste

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