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  1. Orson Scott Card _ Pathfinder

    Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.
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  2. Orson Scott Card _ Pathfinder

    I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you?""If you really try," said Loaf, grinning, "you might not die.
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    Rigg," said Father, "you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway
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    We're an ecological disaster.""Exactly," said the expendable.
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    See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.
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    I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.
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    Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.
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    I'm just saying that I...I regret that everybody else has nineteen chances, and only I am limited to a single chance for my genes to continue.""Because you believe your genes would confer a great blessing upon the human race."Ram thought about this for a moment, "I suppose that's what every adolescent male believes with his whole heart.
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    I've thought of all the questions," said Father."That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones.
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    But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room to tuck new things square inside; they just cling to the outside for a while and drop off.
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    He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen."Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?
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  12. Orson Scott Card _ Pathfinder

    I had no idea we planned to be so ruthless.""It was not publicized or even discussed with the political arm of the colonization program. Ruthlessness was necessary but wins no votes.""But this is not our world, to treat however we want!""Visiting here as students of an alien evolutionary tradition would not be either cost-effective or, ultimately, successful. We would inevitably contaminate Garden, or worse yet, become contaminated and bring potentially deadly Gardenian life forms back to Earth. The three continental preserves will be sufficient to allow biologists to study alien life at some point in the future. And if you really thought we would colonize this world without making it 'ours', you'd be far too naive to command this expedition.""I...didn't realize...""You didn't think about it at all," said the expendable. "The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.""And you aren't morally blind?""We see the moral ironies very clearly. We simply don't care.
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