"Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution."
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"An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures."
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"The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive."
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"The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution."
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"Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path."
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"Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being."
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"The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases."
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"If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state."
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"Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?."
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"Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change."
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"We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice."
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"The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web."
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"'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence."
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"Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim."
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"Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it."
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"Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory."
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"For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time."
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"[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science."
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"... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell."
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"Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us."
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