Orson Scott Card Quotes
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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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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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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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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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
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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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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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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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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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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.
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She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
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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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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.
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Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.
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'I see Alvin with a son. That what he want most.''I see him with a woman,' said Rien. 'That is what he miss the most.''I see him kneeling by a child’s grave,' said Dead Mary. 'That is what he fears the most.'