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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
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Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
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One mind can think only of its own questions it rarely surprises itself.
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If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.
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How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
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Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.
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