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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
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Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
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How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
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The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.
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Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
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It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?
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Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.
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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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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
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History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
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When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
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Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
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We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
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