Quote from Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
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Quote from Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon
America’s intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They’re all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.
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Quote from Orson Scott Card, Hart’s Hope
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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Quote from Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
This emotion I’m feeling now, this is love, right?””I don’t know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you’re with me?””Yes,” she said.”That’s influenza,” said Miro. “Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.
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Quote from Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
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Quote from Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets
It will hurt.” said Petra. “But let’s make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
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Quote from Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.
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Quote from Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that ‘good’ is an infinitely recursive term – it can’t be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it’s better than bad, though why it’s better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
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Quote from Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
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