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“You think I’m cruel,” said Zemil. “Heartless. But I am only direct.
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Voyage of the Beagle
― Voyage of the Beagle
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”
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“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
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“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
― Notebooks
― Notebooks
Cadence’s 2025 Year in Books
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4,735 books
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293 books
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