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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

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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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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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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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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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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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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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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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