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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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