“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.”

—  Orson Scott Card, book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

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American science fiction novelist 1951

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