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"I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to."
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"It's not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time, sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do " you will always see that you're more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance."
"When you're about to judge, look in the mirror and start."
"No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer."
"I was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found."
"Never settle; if it doesn't feel right, it's not suppose to."
"Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away."
"Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future."
"Focus on your potential not your past."
"Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount."
"Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself."
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"Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf."
"I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy."
"In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on."
"It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart."
"Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don't believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.Human: You evolved. We were created.Hive Queen: By a virus.Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.Human: I understand belief.Hive Queen: No-you desire belief.Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that's what faith is.Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity."
"When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed."
"I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin."
"[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back."
"By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science...."
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