Ursula K. LeGuin

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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."	Ability, Doubt, Knowledge
"Love just doesn't sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."	Love, Reading, Time
"Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young."	Age, Faith, Imagination
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."	Ability, Sleeping
"If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern."	Beauty, Life, Time
"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."	Sin
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Excellence
"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."	Happiness, Joy, Time
"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."	Choice, Desires, Goals
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"	Life, Sanity
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."	Evil, Military, War
"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."	Love, Reading, Time

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Ability	Accomplishment	Achievement
Age	Beauty	Choice
Desires	Doubt	Evil
Excellence	Faith	Goals
Happiness	Hope	Imagination
Joy	Knowledge	Lies
Life	Love	Men
Military	Power	Reading
Responsibility	Sanity	Sin
Sleeping	Time	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing
Women