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We are all fools when one wise man appears. (Orson Scott Card)
The others are even more likely to obey their god. Which is? It dangles between their legs. View quote
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience. View quote
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I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me! View quote
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You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too. View quote
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To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that? That's how most men live, and don't even know it. View quote
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters? View quote
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My religion,” said Ms. Brown, "is to try to falsify all hypotheses. View quote
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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. View quote
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Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist. Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it. View quote
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew. (Orson Scott Card)
Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me. View quote
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Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them. Better than seeing miracles that don't exist. You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you? That's where I've always stood. View quote
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Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn't mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever? View quote
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics. View quote
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For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done. View quote
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I don't plan to die for any cause,” said Jim Bowie. "Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain't noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me. View quote
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. View quote
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All children are manipulators. View quote
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears. View quote
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I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. "It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people's doorsteps. That is the business of literature. (Orson Scott Card)
Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he'd stay stupid. View quote
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What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult. View quote
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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. View quote
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you. I've been to hell. It's a better place than this. View quote
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