This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
Orson Scott CardMake friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
Orson Scott CardIn all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott CardThis is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.
Orson Scott Cardit was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't
Orson Scott CardAndrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
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