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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to ma

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Evolution

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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Evolution

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. – Bertrand Russell

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Evolution

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. – Graham Greene

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Evolution

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