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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, 1859What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbIf I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCInventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966