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A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.
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