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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.
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Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
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Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
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And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: Tut-tut, what at botch that was? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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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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There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.
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People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.
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Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
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I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
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A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would.
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O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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So you love me, said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand, said Bean. You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice. That's nice, she said.
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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
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Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.
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