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"Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more."
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"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
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"Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry."I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves.Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy."
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"The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them."
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"It isn't the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn't want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive."
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"Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell."
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"We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
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"I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again."
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"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
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"With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one."
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"This is what the Others have done to us. You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
Media
"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."
Art
"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
Ambition
"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
Art
"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
Success
"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
Literature
"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up."
Work
"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
Society
"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."
Family
"The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons."
Love
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