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| 33e053e | I don't always communicate the truth in the way that I want to--but one of the strengths of telling the truth is that it remains open for elaboration. If what you say in the heat of the moment isn't quite right, you can amend it. I have learned that I would rather be maladroit, or even rude, than dishonest. | Sam Harris | ||
| c4abcd0 | Critiquing Islam, critiquing any idea, is not bigotry. | Sam Harris | ||
| e68fcaf | The doors leading out of the prison of scriptural literalism simply do not open from the inside. | Sam Harris | ||
| 6527cee | Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next--a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please--your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this "decision" and believe that you are in the process of making it." | Sam Harris | ||
| dcf5cf6 | Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass." | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 90f5986 | Scarcely had they closed their eyes than the terrifying cry of a panther rang out from the jungle behind them. Closer and closer it came until they could hear the great beast directly beneath them. For an hour or more they heard it sniffing and clawing at the trees which supported their platform, but at last it roamed away across the beach, where Clayton could see it clearly in the brilliant moonlight--a great, handsome beast, the largest h.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 32a0be7 | Dear old Woola," she said; "no love could be deeper than yours, yet it never offends. Would that men might pattern themselves after you!" | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 5fbe590 | I should at least die as I had lived--fighting. | fighting fighting-spirit | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| b8fd698 | Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 08c14d6 | Bowen!" she cried. "Your knife!" | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 285aff8 | I had had to discard my rifle | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| ba96953 | He was a mighty beast, mightily muscled, and the urge that has made males fight since the dawn of life on earth filled him with the blood-lust and the thirst to slay; | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 747f7d1 | Fear is a relative term and so I can only measure my feelings at that time by what I had experienced in previous positions of danger and by those that I have passed through since; but I can say without shame that if the sensations I endured during the next few minutes were fear, then may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 1d68235 | The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the thoat's broad back. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| dee0e37 | how a force of six or eight fighting men could have done so unobserved is beyond me. We shall soon know, however, for here comes the royal psychologist. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| bb50a3c | Early the next morning I was astir. Considerable freedom was allowed me, as Sola had informed me that so long as I did not attempt to leave the city I was free to go and come as I pleased. She had warned me, however, against venturing forth unarmed, as this city, like all other deserted metropolises of an ancient Martian civilization, was peopled by the great white apes of my second day's adventure. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 8ec50fb | Emerging, as we had, from the dark and gloomy bowels of the earth, the scene before us presented a view of wondrous beauty, and, while doubtless enhanced by contrast, it was nevertheless such an aspect as is seldom given to the eyes, of a Barsoomian of today to view. To me it seemed a little garden spot upon a dying world preserved from an ancient era when Barsoom was young and meteorological conditions were such as to favor the growth of v.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 4250531 | He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man. His features were regular and clear cut, his hair black and closely cropped, while his eyes were of a steel gray, reflecting a strong and loyal character, filled with fire and initiative. His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of t.. | princess-of-mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| f27b48e | Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, and I, at least, was content that it should be so | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 1b6d102 | Later, Thuran also found it necessary to construct a similar primitive garment, so that, with their bare legs and heavily bearded faces, they looked not unlike reincarnations of two prehistoric progenitors of the human race. Thuran acted like one. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 18a5c5f | As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning sobs. | opening-lines | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| a93905f | I feel always that I am a prisoner. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 3d87d1a | how futile is man's poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius. And | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 736a577 | All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved him from transgressing a worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| fd6c391 | and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| ffcd7d8 | To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass through it. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 639506e | I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots. | funny humor science-fiction space-travel | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 2d15cf7 | I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 7ba954e | Tarzan of the Apes was hungry, and here was meat; meat of the kill, which jungle ethics permitted him to eat. How may we judge him, by what standards, this ape-man with the heart and head and body of an English gentleman, and the training of a wild beast? Tublat, whom he had hated and who had hated him, he had killed in a fair fight, and yet never had the thought of eating Tublat's flesh entered his head. It would have been as revolting to .. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| a0408f3 | In absolute and general perfection lies stifling monotony and death. Nature must have contrasts; she must have shadows as well as highlights; sorrow with happiness; both wrong and right; and sin as well as virtue. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| dbc6090 | So this was love! I had escaped it for all the years I had roamed the five continents and their encircling seas; in spite of beautiful women and urging opportunity; in spite of a half-desire for love and a constant search for my ideal, it had remained for me to fall furiously and hopelessly in love with a creature from another world, of a species similar possibly, yet not identical with mine. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| ddbbabf | p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face in the same primeval forest. That we are here today evidences their victory. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 754b243 | P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| e96f218 | Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory. | dejah-thoris john-carter love passionate passionate-love romance romantic sad | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 2b5fba3 | If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me. | providence | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| c6cfc62 | There is much which I have left out; much which I have not dared to tell; but you will find the story of his second search for Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, even more remarkable than was his first | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 2a7c713 | I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 50e1689 | Few western wonders are more inspiring than the beauties of an Arizona moonlit landscape; the silvered mountains in the distance, the strange lights and shadows upon hog back and arroyo, and the grotesque details of the stiff, yet beautiful cacti form a picture at once enchanting and inspiring; as though one were catching for the first time a glimpse of some dead and forgotten world, so different is it from the aspect of any other spot upon.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 08df74e | Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided. | Kurt Eichenwald | ||
| 0deb2e7 | Saving faith involves the mind, the emotions, and the will. With the mind we understand the truth of the gospel, and with the heart we feel conviction and the need to be saved. But it is only when we exercise the will and commit ourselves to Christ that the process is complete. Faith is not mental assent to a body of doctrines, no matter how true those doctrines may be. Faith is not emotional concern. Faith is commitment to Jesus Christ. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 641ec7d | Don't waste time and energy being an imitation. Let God make you into an original. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 62fda0b | Outlook determines outcome, and attitude determines action. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 5d1df01 | Paul did not begin by attacking the false teachers and their doctrines. He began by exalting Jesus Christ and showing His preeminence in five areas: the gospel message, redemption, creation, the church, and Paul's own ministry. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 912ee3b | The virgin birth of Christ is a key doctrine; for if Jesus Christ is not God come in sinless human flesh, then we have no Savior. Jesus had to be | Warren W. Wiersbe |