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• Quote 2595

  What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2596

  We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2597

  In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2598

  To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2599

  It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc..

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2600

  It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2601

  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

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2602

  The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2603

  The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2604

  How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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