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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 story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.
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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances? Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego. You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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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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I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
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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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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
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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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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.
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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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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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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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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
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Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
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