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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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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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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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 tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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