Quotes with darwinian

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• Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

  Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

  William S. Gilbert
  English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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• It is a massively parallel drunkards' walk filtered by a Darwinian process.

  Bruce Perens
   
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• It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner
  American actress and author (1899 - 1979)
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• We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

  W. Bruce Cameron
  American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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• well-behaved
• revelations
• disturbing
• darwinian
• massively
• drunkards

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