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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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
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No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.
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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.
