Orson Scott Card Quotes
You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.
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There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
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I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
