Orson Scott Card Quotes
God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
Quotes to Explore
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I do not like violence.
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I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.
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When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.
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God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself. And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
