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"The false starts and futilities of the past years proved themselves to be groundwork, foundations, laid in the dark but well laid."
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"7. "When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way."
"The value system of a country comes from the educational system."
"Time is the source of all things."
"The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom - love."
"Everything comes out of time."
"Planting of godliness must be a continuous thing, however, one needs to start the planting of godliness from the home front."
"Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues."
"Each day should be founded on a purpose and work in harmony with the core reason for your life."
"Anything built on doubt is rocky. Anything built on fear is shaky. Anything built on hate is unsteady. Anything built on wisdom is trustworthy. Anything built on faith is sturdy. Anything built on love is mighty."
"Building up a dream is like building a room; the foundation must be deep, strong, firm and dependable."
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"Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's about fifty years old, and he's bald. And I'll bet he has to cut his toenails too like any other man. I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead."
"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."
"The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. From the hurricane and the great whale's sounding to the fall of a dry leaf and the gnat's flight, all they do is done within the balance of the whole. But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility."
"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."
"I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic."
"A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt."
"Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. Do you see that? I do what I must do. Where I go, I must go alone. So long as you need me, I'll be with you in Havnor. And if you ever need me again, call me. I will come. I would come from my grave if you called me, Tenar! But I cannot stay with you."
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