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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.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church said Ceas, When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
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