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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.
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Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
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She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
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What am I now, Alai? Still good. At what? At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe. I don't want to go to the end of the universe. So where do you want to go? They'll follow you. I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.
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Dona Crista laughed a bit. Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice. I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.
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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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the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
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You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
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If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
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