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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams
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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
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The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
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Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?
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When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
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Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
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