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by (shelved 251 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,488,636 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 147 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,720,057 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 113 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,577,681 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 92 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,357,733 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 85 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,721,241 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 76 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.01 — 788,018 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 75 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,847,539 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 73 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,102,813 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 69 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,735,470 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 69 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,155,148 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 67 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,446,097 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 64 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,387,054 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 63 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,342,107 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 56 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.96 — 107,517 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 55 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.93 — 772,527 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 51 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.87 — 251,400 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 49 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.81 — 273,935 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 49 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,267,381 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 48 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.11 — 287,303 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 45 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,159 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 43 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.70 — 657,580 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 43 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.16 — 107,818 ratings — published

by (shelved 42 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,077,865 ratings — published 1954

by (shelved 42 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,427,641 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 40 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,376,358 ratings — published 1937

by (shelved 39 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.04 — 659,078 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 37 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,014,667 ratings — published 1955

by (shelved 37 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.71 — 47,099 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 36 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,095,618 ratings — published 1954

by (shelved 35 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.82 — 470,496 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 35 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.66 — 139,112 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 34 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,681,083 ratings — published 1813

by (shelved 34 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.02 — 562,334 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 34 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,826,725 ratings — published 1951

by (shelved 34 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.07 — 101,360 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 33 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.01 — 264,188 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 32 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,818,215 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 32 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.00 — 172,601 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 31 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.68 — 19,473 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 31 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,780,787 ratings — published 1925

by (shelved 30 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.29 — 38,355 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 30 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.02 — 281,253 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 30 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.10 — 70,891 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 30 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.94 — 94,905 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 29 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,167,326 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 29 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,015,945 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 28 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,609 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 28 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.76 — 693,928 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 28 times as 2004)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,740,450 ratings — published 1960

by (shelved 28 times as 2004)
avg rating 3.14 — 13,428 ratings — published 2003

“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tidal waves will occur also. Yet two sorts of error are still absolutely commonplace. The first of these is the idiotic belief that seismic events are somehow "timed" to express the will of God. Thus, reasoning back from the effect, people will seriously attempt to guess what sin or which profanity led to the verdict of the tectonic plates. The second error, common even among humanists, is to borrow the same fallacy for satirical purposes and to employ it to disprove a benign deity.”
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“It is slow, gradual pressure that is the formula for both genius and earthquakes. Life tells us our secrets in these cracks, the way events conspire with each other in hidden grottos. This movement is at times very subtle, over a long time, like plate tectonics. If you don't have the right eyes, you might miss these patterns altogether. Although our lives do not occur in geological scales of time, it is still the gradual pressure and our minute reactions, our habits, that actually speak of our true natures. Our true will and intent is contained in potential within each of us, though in many it is buried very, very deep.”
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