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"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
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"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
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"If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."
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"You must hiss at people who intend to undermine your individuality with their false pride and intellectual stupidity. You must frighten them away, lest they should do you harm. Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone."
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Personal Development
"You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just BE beautiful, and life will defend you."
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Personal Development
"There is no sharper spear than wisdom. There is no larger shield than faith. There is no better fortress than truth. There is no greater strength than hope. There is no higher power than love."
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Personal Development
"To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down."
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Personal Development
"When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword."
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Personal Development
"I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!"
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Personal Development
"The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn't see men who stand in defense of the truth."
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Personal Development
"If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force."
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"I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself."
Motivation
"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
Defense
"And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When- which was not often, but sometimes happened- they burst into tears of utter frustration or despair, their tiny disappointments seemed to him more tragic than Man's long retreat after the loss of his Galactic Empire. That was something too huge and remote for comprehension, but the weeping of a child could pierce one to the heart.Alvin had met love in Diaspar, but now he was learning something equally precious, and without which love itself could never reach its highest fulfillment but must remain forever incomplete. He was learning tenderness."
Emotion
"These leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion."
Politics
"But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea, there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment."
Science
"He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness."
Sadness
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Possibility
"Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any value He liked-are in fact very precised adjusted, or fine-tuned, to produce the only kind of Universe that makes our existence possible."
Science
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
Philosophy
"Please leave me alone, let me go on to the stars."
Escape
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