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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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I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

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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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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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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.

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But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, a...more

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America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade h...more

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What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could...more

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When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabricati...more