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| Professor Howard Duncan is looking for something to boost his career as an entomologist. He and an assistant, Cody Boyd, are in Manaus, Brazil hoping to find that lucky break. They've found some sort of very large insect similar to a cockroach, and d ...more | |
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“disturbed that something had been stolen from it. He held his hand out and let the small bone drop back into the pool. ”
― Lost in the Shadows
― Lost in the Shadows
“She stared at him with those hard black eyes. But it wasn’t her eyes this time that caught his attention.
It was the sharp point of her spear, only inches away from his chest.
It was the last thing he would ever see.”
― Lost in the Shadows
It was the sharp point of her spear, only inches away from his chest.
It was the last thing he would ever see.”
― Lost in the Shadows
“A few kids were trying to surf without much luck, but this wasn’t a good surfing spot. Jack watched as the wanna-be surfers struggled to stay on their boards. He guessed they were kids from out of town with rented surfboards staying at a beach house. The water looked cold, and they weren’t even wearing wetsuits. Maybe they were from someplace that had been buried in snow all winter and they thought this was warm.”
― Lost in the Shadows
― Lost in the Shadows
“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times.”
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“In classical physics, science started from the belief – or should one say, from the illusion? – that we could describe the world, or least parts of the world, without any reference to ourselves.”
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“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― Lost Horizon
― Lost Horizon
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