As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes
("Speaker for the Dead")
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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
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Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins--thoroughly.
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Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
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