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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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