“Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”
“But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth’s caretakers.”
“Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival. Fiben”
“The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.”
“If only I had a decent sense of humor Ah, well. Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”
“Morning after morning, I wake up with him lingering in my thoughts and I feel guilty without having any idea why.”
“The most important things aren't always in the main story; sometimes the real meaning is scribbled in the margins.”
“But there is a difference: in Rhetoric, one who acts in accordance with sound argument, and one who acts in accordance with moral purpose,are both called rhetoricians; but in Dialectic it is the moral purpose that makes the sophist, the dialectician being one whose arguments rest, not on moral purpose but on the faculty. Let”
“Does she love you?"
"Not yet," Elliott says. "But she will. Araby's used to loving people who've done terrible things.”
“I was trapped in a horrible nightmare that happened to other people, not to me. Not to my family and not to my husband.”
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