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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

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I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

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Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

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In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

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A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

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Even theories must have foundations.

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I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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Golf is a mental disorder.

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I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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