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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
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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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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
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You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim. That's right, said Miro. Ender smiled. And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
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If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
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I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God. Then who are you? The personnel officer who hired God.
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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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That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
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When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
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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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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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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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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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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
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