“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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“Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Where are the visions of hopeful futures, of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads?”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“Civilisation had been restored to the Island. But now the political fabric which nurtured it was about to be overthrown. Hitherto strong men armed had kept the house. Now a child, a weakling, a vacillator, a faithless, feckless creature,...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“He who judges of morality judges of honour; and he who judges of honour finds his law in opinion.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Hand in hand, with fairy grace, will we sing, and bless this place.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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