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We're an ecological disaster." "Exactly," said the expendable."
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Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
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Orson Scott Card |
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13792f8
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You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.
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leadership
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Orson Scott Card |
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06edd97
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He did what he thought was right,
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Orson Scott Card |
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6d01566
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In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."
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russia
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Orson Scott Card |
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de5865f
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Not many people are enemies to anyone. But the ones full of greed or hate, pride or fear--their passion is strong enough to lever all the world into war.
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Orson Scott Card |
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e038782
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Rigg," said Father, "you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway"
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Orson Scott Card |
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And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.
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Orson Scott Card |
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2955657
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Do you think we're making a mistake?" snapped the Bishop.
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Orson Scott Card |
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8564ae9
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History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.
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Orson Scott Card |
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78faf74
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What could go wrong... Doing some stupid impulsive thing that caused the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition.
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drowthers
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orson scott card |
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b25dc1c
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Lo ves? Eso es lo que hacen los historiadores, hacen juegos con la causa y el efecto, cuando el asunto es que hay periodos en los que el mundo cambia, y la voz precisa en el lugar preciso puede mover al mundo
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Orson Scott Card |
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e3ef608
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You lied to us
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Orson Scott Card |
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3384c1e
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I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you?" "If you really try," said Loaf, grinning, "you might not die."
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Orson Scott Card |
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I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind.
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mind
individuality
memory
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8badf34
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I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.
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humor
xenology
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But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this house come as the desperate cry of one human being to another, saying, Know me, live with me in the world of my mind.
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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?
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Orson Scott Card |
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7f811f5
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Human beings remain grubs all the lives.
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xenocide
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Orson Scott Card |
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a4a4f0a
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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 , 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 ..
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ender
honor
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Orson Scott Card |
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daad525
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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, ti..
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Orson Scott Card |
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You underestimate yourself.
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Orson Scott Card |
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f6acd61
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That's the problem with Peter," said Theresa. "Only the one?" said Peter."
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Orson Scott Card |
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dcf0c34
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Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
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Orson Scott Card |
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694fb2d
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Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.
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difficulty
growing-up
science-fiction
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Orson Scott Card |
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40e0276
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Never mock a tender heart.
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Orson Scott Card |
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19b3533
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Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!
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Orson Scott Card |
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8176857
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Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b33a883
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The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
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pain
memories
joy
reality
inspirational
past-and-present
memory
pleasure
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Orson Scott Card |
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77067f2
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I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b7e2375
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Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros." ~Sel Menach"
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Orson Scott Card |
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5f648ad
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He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.
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Orson Scott Card |
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saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?
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Orson Scott Card |
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I have begged and she hasn't answered. The whales are swimming deep inside me and she doesn't help. I need help. All the monsters in the world are inside me instead of outside me. I've been tricked and trapped and they are inside my walls not outside my walls inside with me and she won't help me. When I stop thinking about a muscle it shakes. When I stop thinking about a fear it leaps at me. I'm drowning but the lake keeps getting deeper an..
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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?
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Orson Scott Card |
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He was known by three names. The official records have the first one: Marcos Maria Ribeira. And his official data. Born 1929. Died 1970. Worked in the steel foundry. Perfect safety record. Never arrested. A wife, six children. A model citizen, because he never did anything bad enough to go on the public record. The second name he had was Marcao. Big Marcos. Because he was a giant of a man. Reached his adult size early in his life. How old..
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Orson Scott Card |
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You get used to being naked, that's the first thing that Ivan discovered. Crashing through thick brush with branches snagging at your bare skin, you stop worrying about who's looking and and spend your time trying to keep yourself from being flayed alive. He got shy again when they entered the village, but once he decided simply to let the gawkers gawk, he found himself much more interested in what he was seeing than what they were.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.
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learning
wisdom
frederick
transferring-personality-traits
parenthood
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Orson Scott Card |
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49849af
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Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.
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Orson Scott Card |
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7e2a774
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Issib wasn't thrilled to see him. I'm busy and don't need interruptions." "This is the household library," said Nafai. "This is where we always come to do research." "See? You're interrupting already." "Look, I didn't say anything, I just came in here, and you started picking at me the second I walked in the door." "I was hoping you'd walk back out." "I can't. Mother sent me here." Nafai walked over behind Issib, who was floating comfo..
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book-clip
sci-fi
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Orson Scott Card |
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57de2d8
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My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.
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Orson Scott Card |
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0325195
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Don't launch it," said Bean into his microphone, head down. "Set it off inside your ship. God be with you."
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suicide-mission
kamikaze
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Orson Scott Card |
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947a97f
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Will he always come between us? Yes, said Ela. Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall.
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Orson Scott Card |