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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
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He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
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You killed more people than anybody in history. Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
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