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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
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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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A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
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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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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.
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When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
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I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God. Then who are you? The personnel officer who hired God.
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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
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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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It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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