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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
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
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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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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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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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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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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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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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
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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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If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
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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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Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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