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I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak.

There was some enthusiasm for a Caliban village, but it quickly dissipated when people contemplated a future village school and what the mascot might look like.

Could you possibly be a little more incoherent? asked Olivenko. There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's not what you have in mind.

The warmth of mutual respect...Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.

That's the problem with Peter, said Theresa. Only the one? said Peter.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming, said Ram. We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.

Are you asking us to impregnate all the females on all the ships with your DNA, so that you can be sure of having progeny? No! said Ram in horror. What a terrible thing for a woman, to wake up pregnant- a violation of trust. It would destroy all nineteen colonies. Not to mention being embarrassing when all the babies look like you.

We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.

Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD," Bernard said. "Really?" said Dap. "I didn't know he was signed onto the system.

Which of them, then, was more detestable? The one who was loathsome by nature, or the one who wanted to be loathsome but hadn't enough ambition to excel at it>

I steal, Winkle said, with a smile that said I'm joking and a glint in his eye that said I'm not.

Only because of ignorance could he shape the world so fearlessly

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.

you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

Marching constantly around every boy's desk was this message: I LOVE YOUR BUTT. LET ME KISS IT. —BERNARD "I didn't write that message!" Bernard shouted.

Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin?

Ain't spacetime a bitch," said Ram. "Noted," said the expendable. "Nineteen times.

I suppose your evaluation of his intelligence is just right." "Such a Goldilocks line. Makes me feel so…ursine." "Why can't you just say 'bearlike'?" "Because I know the word 'ursine,' and so do you, and it's fun to say.

If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment.

only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation

Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.

The battered old DC 3 lay at the end of the runway like a tiny silver cross.