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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?
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In order to learn, one must change one's mind.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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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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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
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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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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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I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
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Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.
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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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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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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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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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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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