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She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
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Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
Orson Scott Card
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
Orson Scott Card -
He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.
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There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.
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I interpreted all you did as weakness - but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.
Orson Scott Card -
Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
Orson Scott Card
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Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
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Even the most 'Rational' people - the ones who claimed not to have a religion - were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.
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When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.
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'I don’t hold with prophets,' said Alvin. 'Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.'
Orson Scott Card -
If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
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Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
Orson Scott Card
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It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.
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'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'
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We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.
Orson Scott Card -
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.
Orson Scott Card -
Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.
Orson Scott Card -
A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.
Orson Scott Card
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When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott Card