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It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously…
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Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations…
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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only…
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Whenever you can, count.
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The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of…
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Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either…
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One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves…
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All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.
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Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
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We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of…
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The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work…
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What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it…
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
— Teresa of Avila
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available…
— Katherine Boo
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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond…
— Robert Southey
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a…
— Dalai Lama
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
— Robert Browning
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it…
— Dalai Lama
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute,…
— Menno Simons
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not…
— Dalai Lama
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the…
— John Flavel
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