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I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

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Orson Scott Card

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

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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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Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

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The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

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I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

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