Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

Orson Scott Card's Popular Quotes

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

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I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

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If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

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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 responsi…

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Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their clev…

- Orson Scott Card