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Charles Darwin

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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution God
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWIN

Desert Life Love Trial
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Length Man Noble Quality
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWIN

Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Affection Heart Man Science Stone
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Language Species

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