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| 18 | 86 | "I am View more quotes about sure">sure many ships come and go safely in these waters," I had said. |
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| 18 | 83 | But nature is not without its resources; amongst thousands of changes in form and behavior, small and otherwise, some favor the replication of genes and others do not. |
| 18 | 84 | A paw becomes a hand; a cell sensitive to light becomes an eye; the enlargement of a knot on a spinal cord becomes a brain. |
| 18 | 85 | And, one supposes, it might be, that some members of a species subject to extermination on land might, in diverse behaviors, in withdrawing from strong stimuli, in fleeing, in avoiding discovery, discover that the same muscles which allow it to move on land permit it to move in water. |
| 18 | 86 | "I am sure many ships come and go safely in these waters," I had said. |
| 18 | 87 | "These were the waters where it occurred," had said the mariner, Sakim. |
| 18 | 88 | "Many do not believe such a thing exists," I said. |
| 18 | 89 | "I have seen it," Sakim had said. |