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On one hand they're suspicious of them because of how big their market share is and the fact that they have that uniform pricing. On the other hand, they legitimized the digital music business.


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ORSON SCOTT CARD You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We're not taking odds on it,” said Ender. “Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exis...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, wh...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside t...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
"'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're prete...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitani...
ORSON SCOTT CARD With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
ORSON SCOTT CARD If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistak...
ORSON SCOTT CARD [That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Let's fly away and live forever
ORSON SCOTT CARD Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and wh...
ORSON SCOTT CARD So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.

I'm a raging mass of hormones the...
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