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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
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He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
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Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.
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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
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It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
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If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.
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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
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For children love is a feeling for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
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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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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 looked for perfection, and I found something better.
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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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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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake. A habit.
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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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