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Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship.
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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
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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.
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A weak King must be what other Kings have been a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake. A habit.
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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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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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