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“ He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are. ”

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

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Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

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You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

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You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

~ Orson Scott Card