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All were successful,and felt like failures.Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the components that were necessary:None,or maybe one:Dumb...

I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I would say it was from the reign of Queen Anne and had been bunged up by some...

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-or up, I suppose-replacing other people in the process.

He had set up a telescope on a corner of the roof, and we went up to take a look.This is time travel, he said, narrowing an eye to set the lens. Because the light is old. We're seeing back in time.No,...

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

When I learned you were sick , I finally felt old for the first time. You will recover, and I never will.

They were trying to orchestrate a revolution, which almost by definition generated a sense of collective trauma that defied any semblance of coherence and control. If we wish to rediscover the...

But emotions and detective work did not always mix; there was something about that in Clovis Andersen's The Principles of Private Detection. What had he said? Emotions have the same effect as a magnet...

We've all had that sort of experience," said Mma Ramotswe. "Every one of us, Mma. We've all had a first day at school, or a first day in a new job. We've all been unsure what to do.

think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago.

Ted, he said, when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live? I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I...

Tears are okay{Morrie Schwartz}

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is...

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly...

Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz-industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers' commodities.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple...

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

Old age ain't no place for sissies," actress Bette Davis"

Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish-a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real...

Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who...