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Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Charles Darwin

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm
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.
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Life Listen Music Poetry Rule Week
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
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
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Evolution God
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
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Ability Animal Deep Difference Fundamental Happiness Man Misery Pain Pressure
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
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Chance Freedom Matter Mind One Liner
The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World

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