And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
("Ender's Shadow")
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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
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