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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
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Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
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I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
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Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.
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Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu. I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said Peter. Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
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No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
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One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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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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Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
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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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the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
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The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.
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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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