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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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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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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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To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
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What am I now, Alai? Still good. At what? At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe. I don't want to go to the end of the universe. So where do you want to go? They'll follow you. I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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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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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
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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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