Please grab a random book off your shelf, open to a random page, and type the first sentence you read?

Question

"Taking cognizance of Sperry's ideas, Eccles has proposed a different model of brain dynamics in which consciousness again plays a directive role in the flow of neural excitations."

Henry Stapp. "Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics"

Answer 1

For example, we can say roll a D20 to break armor class, but we cannot mention that other game that you have played that uses this game mechanic for dealing combat damage.

Answer 2

"But without doubt the most remarkable example of pronunciation change arising purely as a whim of fashion was the sudden tendency in eighteenth-century upper-class southern England to pronounce words like dance, bath and castle with a borad a, as if they were spelled dahnce, bahth, and cahstle."

Bill Bryson, "The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way"

ETA: chris j, I think I was a playtester for that book.

Answer 3

To what extent Vausubandhu himself believed in the Abhidharma world view is open to question.

The Universe In A Single Atom -Dalai Lama

Answer 4

Because scientists can use the standard model to explain a wide range of experimental results, it is sometimes called the theory of everything-National Geographic: 100 scientific discoveries that changed the world

Answer 5

"The root chakra lies at the bottom of the spinal column and the activity of this chakra affects the entire pelvic region and, to a large degree, the large intestine."

Kalashatra Govinda "A Handbook of Chakra Healing: Spiritual Practice for Healthy, Harmony, and Inner Peace"

Answer 6

Stephen May discovered a treasure while teaching literature at the University of Northern Colorado.

Answer 7

The fact that the major prophets of Baha'ism contradict one another is paradoxically overlooked by Baha'ism, which in its quest for an ecumenical synctrics prefers to avoid rather than explain the great contradictions between the major faiths.

Answer 8

The SPI methods enabled continuous imaging of seed imbibition with a shorter time resolution than ever reported before."

from Annals of Botany (2006)

Answer 9

It is taken directly from the output produced by the LIST option of the Microsoft COBOL compiler, whereas the other program listings are taken from program files with line numbers added by the authors.

Answer 10

Will you give 1% of 1440 minutes each day to God?--Pieta Prayer Booklet.

(whew, good thing I didn't grab the July 1998 issue of "Heavy Metal". That would have been difficult to explain!)