Orson Scott Card Quotes
When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
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Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
Nastassja Kinski -
All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
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When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.
