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Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.

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: the adults are the enemy, not the other...

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important...

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

The middle of the night fell, and silence prevailed, and the silence covered the houses and the roads, and the lights of the faded lamps spread, as if to comfort the desolation of the trees planted in...

you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.

Being loved and admired by a man like that-and she knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her-was like walking in the sunshine;...

Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.

If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business....

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?

SPACES... BREAKS...TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT...

You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time,...

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

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In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...

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 understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them,...

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

If this world were an infinite plan and sailing to the East we could always reach new distances and discover sweeter and newer things than all the cyclades or the islands of King Solomon, then the...

Across the road at the Faith Community Church a couple of dozen old people, come here to live in trailers and die in the sun, are holding a prayer sing. I cannot hear them and do not want to. What I...

Can you tell me anything? It's a bioengineering firm. Bioengineering, Barney said. Well, there's the obvious … Which is? A DNA molecule. Oh, come on, Nedry said. Nobody could be analyzing a DNA...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information,...

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.