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Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
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She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
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