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  1. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
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  2. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.
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  3. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.
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  4. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
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  5. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.
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  6. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    Armies have spent a lot of time and effort training their soldiers not to think of the enemy as human beings. It's so much easier to kill them if you think of them as dangerous animals. The trouble is, war isn't about killing. It's about getting the enemy to stop resisting your will. Like training a dog not to bite. Punishing him leaves you with a beaten dog. Killing him is a permanent solution, but you've got no dog. If you can understand why he's biting and remove the conditions that make him bite, sometimes that can solve the problem as well. The dog isn't dead. He isn't even your enemy.
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  7. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice."
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  8. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
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  9. Orson Scott Card _ Empire

    Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
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