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History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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How short life is for fools.
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It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
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I'm crazy, said Ender. But I think I'm OK.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
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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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The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
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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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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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