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• I am not the least afraid to die." ~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882
• We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds -- the booby and the noddy.
  .. Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors, that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer....
• I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
  -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- The Origin of Species, Chap. iii...
• I've really got into astronomy lately. So much so that I have installed a skylight in my ceiling.
  This really upsets the people that live above me. -- Steven Wrigh...
• Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• It has been a bitter moritification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
  -- Charles Darwi...
• I am Barney of Borg. You will be nauseated.
• I know you're supposed to take life one day at a time -- but lately several days have attacked me at once.
• I have tried so hard to do the right. -Grover Cleveland, 1908.