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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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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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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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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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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
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