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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin

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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

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