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Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.
Earthborn (1995)
Law can change how people behave when others are watching — that's all.
Earthborn (1995)
Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
Earthborn (1995)
We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
Earthborn (1995)
Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
Earthborn (1995)
Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
Earthborn (1995)
I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
Earthborn (1995)
What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
Earthborn (1995)
Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
Earthborn (1995)
They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.
Earthborn (1995)
Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
Earthborn (1995)
That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.
Earthborn (1995)
He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
Earthborn (1995)
I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.
Earthborn (1995)
If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?
Earthborn (1995)
We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.
Earthborn (1995)
It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.
Earthborn (1995)
Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.
Earthborn (1995)
You always do that. Make all the questions harder.
I make them truer.
Earthborn (1995)
Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
Earthborn (1995)