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I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works...more

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We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go ...more

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He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who...more

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They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.

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I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the mist...more

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People need God the way a three-year-old needs a chainsaw.

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The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. ...more

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To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

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But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

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I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all ...more

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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

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COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of blossoming; here and there among the shadowed bou...more

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Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.