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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.”

— Orson Scott Card

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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

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

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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

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Success

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

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Truth

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