David Brin - The Uplift War (1987)

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A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

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The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

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Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do.
I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

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He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.

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It was silly to suppose that trials only hardened men, automatically making them wise. He knew many who were stupid, arrogant, and mean, in spite of having suffered.

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She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

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This is a lovely world, he sighed. And yet it has suffered horror. Sometimes, so-called civilization seems bent on destroying those very things which it is sworn to protect.

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After all, he muttered, what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow who's got delusions of adequacy?

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Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

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A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.

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