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We are optimists, until we are not.

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
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
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Absorb Evil Man Myself Subject
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
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Children Future Present Surround
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
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
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
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
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Desert Life Love Trial
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

We are optimists, until we are not.

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