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Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
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I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
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O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!
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