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Orson Scott Card Inspirational Quotes (278)

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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
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Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
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The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.
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Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
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Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
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People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.
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Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
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When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
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