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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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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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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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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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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The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
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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.
