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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.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
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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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No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.
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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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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
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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 have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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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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The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
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I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
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If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
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Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
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