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.
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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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The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.
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If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
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Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.
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I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smartest. She's the funniest. I love her so much. She's like the - it's like your best friend for the rest of your life.
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Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.
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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.
