As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859
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The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCOne must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972