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“When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.”

Whole Certain Values Humanity Race Quality Generations Mankind Type Fit Prove Survival Average Superiors Proportion Drag Homo Sapiens

Author:Charles Galton Darwin

“What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.”

Christian Evil Social Sides Church Type Crosses Average Ease Eloquence Slumber Counterfeit Moaning Adulation Hammocks

Book:Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent

Source: Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent

“There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.”

“To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.”

Soul Together Certain Type Average Founders Infallible

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.”

World Sometimes Use Loses Particular Listening Type Average Tendencies Jargon Layman

Author:Pharrell Williams

“[The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.”

Persons Facts Risk Type Higher Tests Average Testing Labs Diabetes Average Person Type 2 Diabetes

Author:Francis Collins

“It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.”

Situation Type News Average Good News Bad News

Author:John Garrett

“There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a certain type of people that looks at me and you and your average individual as a problem - like a blight on an otherwise potential paradise, something that needs to be cured.”

People World Needs Mind Looks States Problem Certain Individual Consciousness This World Type Intellectual Average Paradise Look At Me Blight

Author:El-P