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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.
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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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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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