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Letter "F" » fittest
«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
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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. 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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«The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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fittest, moderns
«Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive»
«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)
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accurate, convenient, fittest, Herbert, Herbert Spencer, Spencer, survival of the fittest
«The Survival of the Fittest»
«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.»
«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)
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bloodthirstiness, eradicate, eradicating, fittest, hunt, prey, primitive, promised, rivals, survival of the fittest
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