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“The growth of a large business is merely the survival of the fittest,” proclaimed John D. Rockefeller Sr., after reading Spencer.

This is highly unusual in the war culture of Mogadishu, where survival of the fittest means profit however you can.

In the old mining days out West the law of the survival of the fittest held good, and he who survived had to be very fit indeed.

The doctrine of the survival of the fittest applies in all sciences, social as well as natural.

It is not the fittest that are preserved so much as it is the unfittest that are killed.

Look ye, Captain, we know what is fittest for our Prisoners.

The exploit shed such lustre on his name that he was soon regarded as the fittest candidate for the Presidency.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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