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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. ~ Orson Scott Card
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the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you. I ~ Orson Scott Card
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Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said.
'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine.
'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be worse.'
'I don't know how.'
'It could be an anal exam. ~ Orson Scott Card
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If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. ~ Orson Scott Card
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If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I find out what I really want by seeing what I do," said Ender. "That's what we all do, if we're honest about it. We have our feelings, we make our decisions, but in the end we look back on our lives and see how sometimes we ignored our feelings, while most of our decisions were actually rationalizations because we had already decided in our secret hearts before we ever recognized it consciously. ~ Orson Scott Card
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But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war? ~ Orson Scott Card
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A strange thing happened then. The Speaker agreed with her that she had made a mistake that night, and she knew when he said the words that it was true, that his judgment was correct. And yet she felt strangely healed, as if simply saying her mistake were enough to purge some of the pain of it. For the first time, then, she caught a glimpse of what the power of speaking might be. It wasn't a matter of confession, penance, and absolution, like the priests offered. It was something else entirely. Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Never true,' Old Ben would say. 'Useful- now, there's something. Your mind might make a connection that is useful. But true is another matter. True implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not. And I must say that I have never seen such a connection in my life. There are times when I suspect there are no such connections, that all links, bonds, ties, and similarities are creations of thought and have no substance. ~ Orson Scott Card
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You can't answer what I said, so you're going to talk about my saying it. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The only profit from their sojourn on Earth would be the memory of this mad species, which had somehow become intelligent without ever learning how to understand themselves. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone? ~ Orson Scott Card
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What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The future happiness of the human race depends on good people who want to live at peace with their neighbors, and who are willing to protect their neighbors from those who don't want peace. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was.
"Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you."
That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked.
"Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant. ~ Orson Scott Card
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(Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!) ~ Orson Scott Card
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What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The difference between science fiction and fantasy ... is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I hate it when you 'deal' with me." "OK, what if I 'handle' you instead? ~ Orson Scott Card
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It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right
voice in the right place can move the world ~ Orson Scott Card
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Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves, and flatter them. ~ Orson Scott Card
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We are only human when we are part of a community ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it. ~ Orson Scott Card
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We've just got to face the fact that we're second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands. ~ Orson Scott Card
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What an unfriendly country," said Noxon. "Different time, different place," said Wheaton. "We think we're a very welcoming country. Generous and kind. Unless we don't like your language or the way you look. ~ Orson Scott Card
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In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide. ~ Orson Scott Card
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He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely. ~ Orson Scott Card
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It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her. ~ Orson Scott Card
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No system works well unless good people do their jobs with integrity, and then almost any system works well enough. ~ Orson Scott Card
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When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker - ever since I first learned Stark and read The Hive Queen and the Hegemon, I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you had come to give me passage, if only I did well."
"You did well, Human. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Think like a machine instead of a boy. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which? ~ Orson Scott Card
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When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Truth did not care much about such credentials. It refused to give up and reveal itself just because it realized you were bound to find it eventually. Bean ~ Orson Scott Card
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Could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him; a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed ~ Orson Scott Card
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Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. ~ Orson Scott Card
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When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. ~ Ernest Cline
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Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK? ~ Orson Scott Card
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The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy. ~ Orson Scott Card
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There's always hope ... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity. ~ Orson Scott Card
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He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that. ~ Orson Scott Card
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He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn't think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn't find such a place in himself. He was afraid, and fear made him serious. ~ Orson Scott Card
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It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive? ~ Orson Scott Card
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All the others knew that he had a mind, knew that he was capable of understanding ideas. What will new people think when they see me? They'll see a body that's already atrophying, hunched over; they'll see me walk with a shuffling gait; they'll watch me use my hands like paws, clutching a spoon like a three-year-old; they'll hear my thick, half-intelligible speech; and they'll assume, they'll know, that such a person cannot possibly understand anything complicated or difficult. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. ~ Orson Scott Card
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We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Lightspeed travel between worlds had let him skip like a stone over the surface of time. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging. ~ Orson Scott Card
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If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation."
"What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?"
"An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife."
Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked.
"Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong.
Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it.
"You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly.
"I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong. ~ Orson Scott Card
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America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish. ~ Orson Scott Card
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You will soon learn that there ARE no strange stars, no alien skies"
- No?
"Only skies and stars, in all their varieties. Each one with its own flavour, and all flavours good"
- Now YOU think like a tree. Flavours! Of skies!
"I have tasted the heat of many stars, and all of them were sweet ~ Orson Scott Card
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Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word "we" came to his lips much more easily than "I ~ Orson Scott Card
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It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that? ~ Orson Scott Card
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I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end. ~ Orson Scott Card
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THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The enemy gate is down. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so. ~ Orson Scott Card
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In the face of a threat to the survival of the species, all these planetside trivialities are put aside until the crisis passes. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them. ~ Orson Scott Card
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You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim."
That's right," said Miro.
Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into somebody who's stronger and smarter than anybody, you think, This is a god. This is perfection. But I can promise you that there's somebody else somewhere else who'll make your god look like a maggot by comparison. And somebody smarter or stronger or better in some way. So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down. For Congress to genetically alter people to make them smarter and more creative, that could have been a godlike, generous gift. But they were scared, so they hobbled the people of Path. They wanted to stay in control. A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them. ~ Orson Scott Card
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So you're coming along with me, increasing our risk of being identified and allowing Achilles to get his two worst nemeses with one well-placed bomb, in order to save my life? ~ Orson Scott Card
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. ~ Orson Scott Card
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He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable. ~ Orson Scott Card
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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Let's fly away and live forever ~ Orson Scott Card
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid. ~ Orson Scott Card
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How short life is for fools. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. ~ Orson Scott Card
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I sold my brother," Valentine said, "and they paid me for it. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Why do you say that I am alone? My body is with me wherever I am, telling me endless stories of hunger and satisfaction, weariness and sleep, eating and drinking and breathing and life. With such company who could ever be alone? ~ Orson Scott Card
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So quickly does nationalism surface in the heart of a man who thought he was above such tribalism. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went. ~ Orson Scott Card
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He touched the keyboard and the terminal displayed a list of all the activities he usually engaged in, then scanned through them. He could touch a key and it would go directly to the activity he wanted, skipping dozens of preliminaries, saving him many painful minutes of typing one character at a time. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice. ~ Orson Scott Card
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The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow. ~ Orson Scott Card
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Excuse me, but if God wanted to do everything himself, what did he make us for in the first place? ~ Orson Scott Card
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Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses. ~ Orson Scott Card
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We have special voices for different people; our attitudes, our moods change depending on whom we are with. ~ Orson Scott Card
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