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The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.
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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.
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I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.
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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.
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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
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There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.
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My religion," said Ms. Brown, "is to try to falsify all hypotheses."
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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You can afford me," said Jane. "I'm cheap and you're rich."
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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The others are even more likely to obey their god.It dangles between their legs.
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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
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Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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You always do that. Make all the questions harder.I make them truer.
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Law can change how people behave when others are watching -- that's all.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
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It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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It's plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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Orson Scott Card |
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
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