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"When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow."
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"Coincidence is not just only a road to facts but also a call to ponder."
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"Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid."
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"And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly obey, even setting aside their own conscience. And so we did. We corrected your deed and based it on miracle, mystery, and authority. And mankind rejoiced that they were once more led like sheep, and that at last such a terrible gift, which had brought them so much suffering, had been taken from their hearts."
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"I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists."
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"If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic."
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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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"A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one."
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"All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things."
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"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."
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"The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud."
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"A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras."
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"Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed."
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"To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof."
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"I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination."
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"We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life."
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"Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together."
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"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."
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"Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.""But you're the Answerers!""You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?""No""""To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question."
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"Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men."
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"With eye and hand and breath and will."
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