Orson Scott Card Quotes
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.
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Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
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If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.
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'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.
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And I says back to him, 'Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,' and he says back to me, 'I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,' and I said, 'Why?' and he says to me, 'Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.'
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Here’s the bottom line. I promise you it’s entirely legal, and he can’t touch you for it. This is how the laws are written. They’re designed to protect the fortunes of people as rich as you, while throwing the main tax burden on people in much lower brackets.
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.