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• History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge
  periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another....
• Each team building another component has been using the most recent tested version of the integrated system as a test bed for debugging its piece.
  Their work will be set back by having that test bed change under them....
• We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
  -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- The Origin of Species, Chap. iii...
• 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...
• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
  -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- The Origin of Species, Chap. iii...
• NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.
  As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama....
• Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the organ of the species.
• The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts.
  The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up....
• It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. -- Charles Bukowski