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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
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Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
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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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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
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Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing deception by the officers was another but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.
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Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.
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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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And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: Tut-tut, what at botch that was? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
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I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
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[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
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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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The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.
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Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
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A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
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