Well, I won't be using the Darwin "quote" then! At least I knew "survival of the fittest" wasn't his either.

As for dragging in potential arguments about evolution, I wasn't going to, actually. Thinking about the quotes I cited - and I don't really think it's innately bad to draw a simple analogy if that's as far as it goes - got me thinking about the debates in populist (and presumably academic) thinking on evolution, and I kind of jumped into that topic. I then jumped back out of it to think about what I was really considering (change and how much are we may deal with it due to our personality versus previously-learned lessons).

So, yes, more of a stream-of-consciousness there than ordered propositions and conclusions!