"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
-Herbert Spencer
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"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.“
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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
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"Science is organized knowledge."
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"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."
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"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
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