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- One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
- Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy…
- No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.
- One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers…
- How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it…
- Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the…
- I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right…
- You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it…
- Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our…
- I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
- The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even…
- The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then…
- But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that…
- The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when…
- No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you…
- An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is…
- In order to learn, one must change one's mind.
- I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try…
- One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
- Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation…
- Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that…
- 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…
- As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,…
- That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers…
- Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this:…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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