"One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands."

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Source : "Hereditary Talent and Character". MacMillan's Magazine, 12, 1865.

Francis Galton

#Law Quotes #Land Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.”
“Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.”
“Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.”

Source : Thomas Nelson Page “The Works of Thomas Nelson Page”
“Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.”

Source : Fernand Braudel (1982). “On History”, p.16, University of Chicago Press
“People ask me who my favorite inker is and I tell them my favorite inker was Joe Sinnott...but I was the best. Now I don't mean that as any kind of egotistical thing. It's just that I did what Jack wanted.”
“Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his while to enter into serious investigations of opinions so advanced is a question which his reason and instinct alone can decide. If these things, in the end, should turn out to be true, I shall not be ashamed of being the last to believe them.”
“Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.”
“You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

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