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Charles Darwin

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The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Nasihat

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The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Kehidupan

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Bukanlah spesies yang paling kuat atau cerdas yang mampu survive, tapi yang paling beradaptasi.

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Bukanlah spesies yang paling kuat atau paling cerdas yang mampu survive, tapi mereka yang paling mampu beradaptasi terhadap perubahan.

Kehidupan

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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Kehidupan

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Motivasi

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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Kejujuran

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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

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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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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

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A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

Kehidupan

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None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.

Alam

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When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

Alam

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But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?

Kehidupan

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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Kehidupan

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In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.