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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation there were people who loved each other and people who did not it was a human world.
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You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
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You will learn to defeat the enemy.
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History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
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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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Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
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