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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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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
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In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
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My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
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For children love is a feeling for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
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You killed more people than anybody in history. Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
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There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.
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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church said Ceas, When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
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Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?
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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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The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
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