When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'


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On the crassest level, the lady gets into the box, the lady is sawn in half, the lady is in two piec...
CLIVE BARKER
But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for exam...
CLIVE BARKER
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when thing...
CLIVE BARKER
[As for Clive Barker -- he spent virtually all day with his fans. First at an autograph session that...
CLIVE BARKER
I've never felt so good in my life,
CLIVE BARKER
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutel...
CLIVE BARKER
Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's o...
CLIVE BARKER
Commodity prices look sustainable in the short term. Analysts are expecting spectacular results in t...
TIM BARKER
No one's worried -- there's precautions to stop it spreading through the room.
CAM BARKER
Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed ups...
CLIVE BARKER
However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the...
CLIVE BARKER
Barker was a great writer, a great actor and a great loss to us all. I think God must have needed ch...
RONNIE BARKER
We have decided that this offence is too serious for a community sentence. You will be sent to a you...
RONNIE BARKER
The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He'll now be known...
RONNIE BARKER
... And it's goodnight from him.
RONNIE BARKER
To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's t...
RONNIE BARKER
I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.
BOB BARKER
My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada...
NIGEL BARKER
During the six years I spent writing my novel 'The Incarnations,' I lived in seven cities in...
SUSAN BARKER
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every momen...
CLIVE BARKER
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy—
The past, the future, and
The dreaming moment between—<...
CLIVE BARKER
Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
CLIVE BARKER
Building more highways doesn't always result in less congestion and shorter commute times.
BILL BARKER
We'll sit in a canoe, quietly, and we'll watch that hole until just after dark. Hoping, hoping that ...
SARA BARKER
My Dad always liked Syracuse and we knew here that Colin (Barber) was leaving, ... We figured that t...
JOHN BARKER
The built-in trunk is long overdue. Leave it to Honda to do the simple things and do them well.
JOSEPH BARKER
I don't mind filling in. I like working with the people of this town.
ANN BARKER
I'll just fall into what I have to do if the clerk is sick or can't get into work.
ANN BARKER
I've been around for a long time and have no problem doing the job.
ANN BARKER
One man's pornography is another man's theology.
CLIVE BARKER
Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposi...
HOWARD BARKER
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in ...
CLIVE BARKER