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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
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It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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