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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.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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,...

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

In Frank I have found something beyond me, beyond my understanding, this is where some incredible core of me is destined to be even if not in this life.

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...

Most of the company's employees were content to do what they were told and incurious as to how it was, exactly, that they had worked the miracles that somehow arrived all packaged and labeled and...

We will do what I always do in such situations, what I have already done a hundred times, which everyone who really knows the mountains does automatically. - Meaning? - catapult.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she'd taken it hard. Her market excursions were the acme of her days, and trying to commiserate, I'd...

It was like flying upside-down over a planet made of metal; and of all the sights the galaxy held which were the result of conscious effort, it was one bested for what the Culture would call gawp...

Normally, I admire your kick-in-the-face style, Lieutenant. But try that with this, and the two of us will be making love in heaven tonight." "Heaven wouldn't have either of us

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

She had the satisfaction, so beloved of dictators, of a permanent state of emergency.

In God's name, she thought, let the more loving one be someone else; for me it is beyond endurance.

I've missed you, Frank.''I haven't breathed since you left.

shambles in her sternum.

Even this far inland, New Jersey was still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, which in its time, a few years back, had been called the storm of the century. How foolish it seemed now to label anything...

And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.

there was any number of men like that, waiting for an attractive girl that they could latch on to and whose life they could slowly destroy.