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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
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I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
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To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
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People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.
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Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
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As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
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Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
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We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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A broken clock is right two times a day.
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The only way to learn is by changing your mind.
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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
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Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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