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You frighten me, when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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