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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.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
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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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To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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