More from Orson Scott Card

  1. For we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole…
  2. Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
  3. He pretended all this time that humans were rational human beings, when we are really the most terrible monsters these poor aliens could ev…
  4. He luxuriated in the sound of high language well spoken.
  5. They've never seen us make a move like that. They don't understand that, yes, humans will always act to preserve their own lives - except f…
  6. Analyzing things was fine, but good reflexes could save your life.
  7. Yet throughout history, great victories had come as much because of the losing army's errors as because of the winner's brilliance in battl…
  8. You frighten me when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.…

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