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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
Orson Scott Card
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What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.
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Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?
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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.
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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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'Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?''Few measure up to my standards, but most try.'
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Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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All children are manipulators.
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It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
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I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts... And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.
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You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
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I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.
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Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
Orson Scott Card