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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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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 think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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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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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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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