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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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Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
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Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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Dona Crista laughed a bit. Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice. I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.
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If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
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You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?
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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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