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• 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 human race, to which so many of my readers belong
  has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up....
• HUMAN The human being either evolved from the biologically very similar ape, or was created along with the rest of the world in a six-day creative spurt by an anonymous god.
  The human body is a wonderful thing. Well, most of them are....
• The agreement of so many kinds of animals in a certain common structure
  which seems to be fundamental not only in their skeletons, but also in the arrangement of the other parts - so that a wonderfully simple typical form, by the shortening and lengthening of some parts, and by the suppression and development of others, might be able to produce an immense variety of species - allows a ray of hope, however faint, to enter our minds, that here perhaps some result may be obtained, by the application of the principle of the mechanism of nature (without which there can be no natural science in general)....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor.
  -- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)...
• Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.
  No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise....
• FAT Research has now shown that Fat is actually an alien life-form that travels the galaxy, looking for other beings to attach itself to.
  Fat beings first arrived on Earth in the late 1960s, attracted by signals sent into space by the Graceland Observatory in the US....