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«All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.»
«Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?»
Author: Solomon Short
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Nature
| Keywords:
abhors, conservation, conservation of energy, creamed, fittest, for one thing, law of conservation of energy, situations, survival of the fittest, violates
«Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.»
Author: Ty Cobb
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Baseball
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blooded, Blood Sport, fittest, had better, it No, pink, pinks, red-blooded, red man, sport, sporting man, supremacy, survival, survival of the fittest, tea, The Pink
«The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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advantages, benign, cheap, comforts, competition, department, ensures, ensuring, evade, evaded, evading, fittest, improved, luxuries, owe, pays, substitutes, survival, survival of the fittest, train
«And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Law and lawyers
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competition, department, ensures, ensuring, fittest, survival of the fittest
«As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| Keywords:
basket, coincidentally, eggs, fittest, named, Russell, so to speak, survival of the fittest, younger
«The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
accurate, convenient, fittest, Herbert, Herbert Spencer, Spencer, survival of the fittest
«Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.»
«If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
bloodthirstiness, eradicate, eradicating, fittest, hunt, prey, primitive, promised, rivals, survival of the fittest
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