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Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
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
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And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: Tut-tut, what at botch that was? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
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Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu. I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said Peter. Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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I'm crazy, said Ender. But I think I'm OK.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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