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None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

The enemy gate is down.

You remind me of the babe.What babe?The babe with the power.What power?The power of voodoo.Who do?You do.

Being happy boils down to three things. Something to do. Someone to love. And something to look forward to.

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for...

I did that on purpose,' Lucille Miller told Erwin Sprengle later, 'to save myself from letting my heart do something crazy.

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the...

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal's, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly...

We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said.Ender stopped. Not from them.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of...

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore....

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away-

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 can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said.really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system

People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and...

That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to...

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 up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything...

Their time was short, so Morrell spoke quickly. It is the stated policy of the United States government never to negotiate with terrorists. We all know it's the nation's first and most important...

How much do you love me?' Midori asked.'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

Under orders from Kitchener himself, an attempt was to be made to bribe the Turkish commander of the Kut siege into letting Townshend's army go in return for one million English pounds' worth of gold....

How could I forget? I'm her godmother.' Sasha knew Claire so well, knew she needed a moment now, some space to think, so she didn't press. But she was far from finished with the problem. 'Have you...