Orson Scott Card Quotes
The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the assumption "We are good, they are evil," or "We know what is good and right and we know what is wrong," so all questions are settled in advance by a set of ideological prejudices.
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If doubtful whether to end with 'yours faithfully', or 'yours truly', or 'your most truly', &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach 'yours affectionately'), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!
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I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
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In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
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The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
