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Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the ho...more

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Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to...more

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[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

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Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu....more

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This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?""I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?""Yes," ...more

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Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and...more

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As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

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You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

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Bean was tired of talking about this. She looked so happy when she talked about God, but he hadn't figured it out yet, what God even was. It was like,...more

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You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.""I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.""But it ...more

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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody be...more

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He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen."Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these da...more

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Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they ...more