American - Writer | August 24, 1951 -
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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