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The most evil creatures don't desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves. (Orson Scott Card)
Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones. View quote
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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream. View quote
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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. View quote
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes. View quote
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited. View quote
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other. View quote
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How short life is for fools. View quote
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It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others. View quote
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth. View quote
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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same. (Orson Scott Card)
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. View quote
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in. View quote
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. View quote
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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is? View quote
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I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments. View quote
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That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all. View quote
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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart. View quote
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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people. View quote
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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. View quote
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you. (Orson Scott Card)
Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth. View quote
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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit. View quote
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, "Where there's smoke there's fire,” when the saying should have been, "Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence. View quote
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Like running hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone. View quote
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