"This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path."

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"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."

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"How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships."

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"Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid."

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