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My father once told methat there are no gods;only the cruel manipulationsof evil peoplewho pretended that their power was goodand their exploitation w...more

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We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

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Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kin...more

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It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

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He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again ...more

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It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

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I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps i...more

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So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

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In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

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The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

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Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

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While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's r...more

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Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. ...more

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Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Or...more

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A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.