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You can't change what you don't understand.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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America is an empire that does not wish to be one we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
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You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.
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A broken clock is right two times a day.
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I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.
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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
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To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
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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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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
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I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
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