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" Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. "
Orson Scott Card
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" In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. "
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" It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. "
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" I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. "
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" I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. "
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" God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. "
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" The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. "
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