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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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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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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.
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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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There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
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It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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