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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing deception by the officers was another but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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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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With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
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The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
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In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
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The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
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Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
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Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
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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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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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