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«All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.»
«But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man!»
«Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.»
«And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department»
«As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.»
«Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest»
«And this unpolished rugged verse I chose / As fittest for discourse and nearest prose.»
«Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.»
«Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is best and fittest, or because our knowledge is at the time of action not present to the mind»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Knowledge | Keywords: fittest
«Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer»

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