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I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.

Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful advancement has mainly depended.

This prophecy has turned out entirely and miserably wrong.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?

Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.

Her need to shape memory into history.

For Nature, which has peopled the land with rational souls, may not have left the sea altogether barren of them

I don't envy the mule his labyrinthine inlets, those indispensable side-intelligencers.

Yes," Christopher said. " 'He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire

John could have intended a double meaning. In the end, darkness was not able to suppress the Light even by placing the Light in a tomb. However

By 2007—just three years after the first report of Morgellons—the CDC received about twelve hundred reports of Morgellons, triggering the inquiry. This was quite remarkable, given that the disease doesn't really exist.

let slip the yapping chihuahuas of infowar

You've just spent an entire prehistoric human lifetime as an ice ghoul and people are needling you for having too many arms? I shake my head. I just assume you have a good reason.

He monologued at me. With PowerPoint.?? ??He what? And you're still sane? Obviously I underestimated you.??

Someday I'll write a textbook about personality profiling through possessions; but for now let's just say this example is screaming "megalomaniac!" at me.

Back to my question: is it better to reign in Hell—or should I aspire to be a citizen in the early years of a better nation?

And convincing someone that an outrageous ritual has caused them to forget the constitutional bedrock of their society is hard.

his beard is about thirty centimeters long, grizzled and salted and bifurcated. It has so much character that it's probably being hunted by a posse of typographers.

Oh, and if the Nazgûl aren't already on the alert for reports of vampires entering the country, I'm a chocolate teapot.

In his house," intoned the congregation, "He shall return, that dead lies dreaming.

It has so much character that it's probably being hunted by a posse of typographers.

Within the shielded darkness of the President's limousine a geas unlocks in my head, and I can finally remember the message the PM wants me to convey to his counterpart