Marcus Aurelius
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“Organisms need to turn obstacles into fuel just as fire does.” Marcus Aurelius
Long ago, in Origin of the Species (1859), Charles Darwin suggests “it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able…
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