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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

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All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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The big talent is persistence.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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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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I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
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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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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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