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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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You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
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