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Alfred Russel Wallace

"In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes."

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1991). “Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

Alfred Russel Wallace

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“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.”
“To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.”

Source : Alan McGlashan (1988). “The Savage and Beautiful Country: The Secret Life of the Mind”, p.112, Daimon
“I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc taking shape between them. I was experimenting with releasing the stories online for Paypal donations, so the existing ones are currently available via the blog for free download, but the ball didn't keep rolling in terms of meeting the targets I was setting.”
“In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.”
“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”
“I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and the certain Islamic takeover of Europe to completely annihilate European Christendom within the next hundred years he must ensure that the warriors fighting for the preservation of European Christendom prevail.”
“When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.”
“Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.”

Source : Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.19, Chicago Review Press

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