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Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.
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[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
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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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