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| 11 | 28 | What made them such dreaded foes was not so much their View more quotes about intelligence">intelligence or, on the steel worlds, their technological capacities, as their aggressiveness, their persistence, their emotional commitments, their need to populate and expand, their innate savagery. |
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| 11 | 25 | Moreover, they, like men, were rational. |
| 11 | 26 | Like men, they were a single-brained organism, limited by a spinal column. |
| 11 | 27 | Their intelligence, by Priest-Kings, though the brain was much larger, was rated as equivalent to that of men, and showed similar random distributions throughout gene pools. |
| 11 | 28 | What made them such dreaded foes was not so much their intelligence or, on the steel worlds, their technological capacities, as their aggressiveness, their persistence, their emotional commitments, their need to populate and expand, their innate savagery. |
| 11 | 29 | The beast was approximately nine feet in height; I conjectured its weight in the neighborhood of eight or nine hundred pounds. |
| 11 | 30 | Interestingly, Priest-Kings, who are not visually oriented organisms, find little difference between Kurii and men. |
| 11 | 31 | To me this seems preposterous, for ones so wise as Priest-Kings, but, in spite of its obvious falsity, Priest-Kings regard the Kurii and men as rather similar, almost equivalent species. |