It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn’t want to die. As
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“The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you’re actually in a religious discussion, one more zealot arguing with another.”
― Looking Glass
― Looking Glass
“Layout is the organization and arrangement of copy, the stage when proportional relationships of positive and negative spaces are fine-tuned and adapted to a particular format. Design is the result of layout - the end effect. It is the combination and sum of all applied graphics and their relationship to the format. Think of layout as cause, and design as effect.”
― Mastering Layout: On the Art of Eye Appeal
― Mastering Layout: On the Art of Eye Appeal
“You believe in heroes?” Corvino looked at him thoughtfully. “I cannot believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I am a soldier. I try to fight for the right cause. Sometimes it is hard to know.”
― Sackett's Land
― Sackett's Land
“No man is an adult while his parents are alive. Until they die he is merely a performance to either please or punish them.”
― Adjustment Day
― Adjustment Day
“His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them.”
― His Dark Materials
― His Dark Materials
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