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Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to… — Michael Ghiselin
The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure… — Harold Morowitz
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally… — Charles Darwin
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up,… — D. H. Lawrence
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. — Paul Gauguin
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network… — Mary Parker Follett
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich… — Paul Brooks
Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and… — Mahatma Gandhi
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical… — Karl Marx
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible… — William James
Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel… — Carl Woese
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in… — Stephen Batchelor
We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than… — Hans Asperger
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself. — Thomas Metzinger
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order… — Joseph Beuys
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting… — Ilka Chase
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into… — Betty Friedan
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism — Carl Rogers
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all… — Will Durant
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon… — Viktor Schauberger
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the… — Boris Johnson
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing… — Robert Hugh Benson
For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ...… — Tom Feeney

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