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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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