All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect … - Orson Scott Card

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I dislike the word 'victim. ' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

Orson Scott Card

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

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