“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. ”
- Grace Paley- Copy
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“ Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The one-eyed man will have a stronger one eye; the blind man will have deeper inner sight, and will definitely hear better. To this extent, to me, the famous theory of survival of the fittest does not seem to be the only perspective that can be used to explain the progress of strengthening of a man or a race. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ 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… ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
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