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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.
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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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
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Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
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