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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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Richland
Washington
Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
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