Carolina QuotesThe doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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- Earthborn (1995)
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- 1995
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