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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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