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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.
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He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
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