Orson Scott Card Quotes
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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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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Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
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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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We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
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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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'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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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.
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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
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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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He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.
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Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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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.