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When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.
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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: Tut-tut, what at botch that was? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
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The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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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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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
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It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
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