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"So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve."
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"Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry. I could have told him even then that it was not shame so much as fear. Now I went on through the Sinoth Valley, through the evening of his death, into the cold country that lies beyond fear. There I found you can weep all you like, but there's no good in it."
Emotion

"If the foreman had no experience in bossing a mob, they had no experience in being one. Members of a community, not elements of a collectivity, they were not moved by mass feeling; there were as many emotions there as there were people. And they did not expect commands to be arbitrary, so they had no practice in disobeying them. Their inexperience saved the passenger's life."
Leadership

"The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them."
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"We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone."
Mindset

"If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown."
Nature

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Love

"Cinders patter, falling with the snow. We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of a world in the process of making itself. Praise then Creation unfinished!"
Philosophy

"Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing."
Love

"I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse will inevitably be sterile. It remains to be proved; Estraven and I proved nothing except perhaps a rather subtler point."
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"He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal."
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"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."
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"Tomorrow is the next step in life-not the next stop in life."
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"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."
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"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."
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"The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style."
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"Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations."
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"Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it."
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"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."
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"Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest."
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"Invest in yourself, because you will only ever achieve the level of success that matches your level of wisdom."
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