| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 11 | 32 | One difference they do remark between the human and the Kur, and that is that the human, commonly, has an inhibition against killing. |
| 11 | 33 | This inhibition the Kur lacks. |
| 11 | 34 | "Fellow rational creatures!" called the Kur. |