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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
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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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation there were people who loved each other and people who did not it was a human world.
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All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
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A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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Sickness and healing are in every heart death and deliverance in every hand.
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