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In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.Orson Scott Card
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It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.Orson Scott Card
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A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.Orson Scott Card
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We are only human when we are part of a community.... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them.... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives.Orson Scott Card
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You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.Orson Scott Card
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There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.Orson Scott Card
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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.Orson Scott Card