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

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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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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 have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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