Herbert Spencer Quotes
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.
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Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
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Back in 2005-2006 when Tudou and Youku were founded, we saw the inflection point with the opportunity to build the leading PC-based video website.
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By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
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It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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Death and the devil, what are these to him? His being accuses him - and yet his face is firm In resolution, in absolute persistence; The folds of smiling do for steadiness; The face is its own fate - a man does what he must - And the body underneath it says: I am.
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God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled...
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Hitchens: 'Let me ask a question to Mr Heston: can he tell me, clockwise, what countries have frontiers and borders with Iraq, starting from Kuwait?'
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It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
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I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.
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Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.
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When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.
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Your natural decisions are the decisions that are going to be good.
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There is a lot of new research about how stress hormones affect your body and how you can work on giving your body as much of the good hormones as possible, because that heals your body. I am quite a rational person - so when someone could show me that there was a rational way of seeing fear in terms of stress hormones, it was easier for me to understand. I think all autoimmune diseases are very sensitive to stress. It is typical that the flares come after a period of emotional stress. The connection is quite clear.
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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
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I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.
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A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
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This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.