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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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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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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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
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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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We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
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I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.
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Work hard at doing what you feel is right. Don't be scared!
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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.
