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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Charles Darwin

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
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Friendship Man Measure Worth
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.
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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Change Prove Record Species
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
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
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
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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Attack Fame Love Truth
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Constitution Moral
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Important Shield Sword Victory
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
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 would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
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
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Chief Plant Travel View
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
We are optimists, until we are not.
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One Liner Optimism
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Affection Heart Man Science Stone
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
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
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Animal Consideration Equality
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human

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