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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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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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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
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I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would.
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