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- It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.
- There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease…
- There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the…
- If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
- The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then…
- Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste…
- None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
- I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the…
- 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.
- We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have…
- I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call…
- 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…
- 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. "I…
- I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful…
- it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not…
- Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do…
- 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:…
- Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
- As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to…
- someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream…
- From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
- She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves…
- Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You…
- Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage…
- Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong