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Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability; our legal and moral codes that try to abolish violence and promote permanence of ownership and enforce contracts--those represent the primary female strategy, the taming of the male.
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Could you possibly be a little more incoherent?" asked Olivenko. "There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's not what you have in mind." --
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That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.
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You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly. "You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake."
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meaning
your-face
ender
valentine
children
forget
memory
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What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?
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Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They go along because they don't know how to be alone, either physically or intellectually.
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Just because your former understanding of the purpose of your life is contradicted doesn't mean that you have to decide there is no purpose.
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And you don't understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.
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Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.
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relationships
family
life
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I'm just saying that I...I regret that everybody else has nineteen chances, and only I am limited to a single chance for my genes to continue." "Because you believe your genes would confer a great blessing upon the human race." Ram thought about this for a moment, "I suppose that's what every adolescent male believes with his whole heart."
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That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
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People get used to anything, if it just goes on.
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all living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
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Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and there, a life of true randomness instead of always being part of someone else's purpose.
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Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.
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Orson Scott Card |
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I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.
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Orson Scott Card |
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I never went to the priests to confess," she said, "because I knew they would despise me for my sin. Yet when you named all my sins today, I could bear it because I knew you didn't despise me. I couldn't understand why, though, till now." "I'm not one to despise other people for their sins," said Ender. "I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say inside myself, I've done worse than this." "All these years you've borne the burden of humanity..
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It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.
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See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.
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Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.
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Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.
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I divide officers into four classes--the clever, the lazy, the stupid, and the industrious. The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands. He has the temperament and the requisite nerves to deal with all situations. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be removed immediately. --Genera..
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Orson Scott Card |
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it's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world.
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Orson Scott Card |
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We don't use the word 'intelligence' with software. We regard that as a naive idea. We say that it's 'complex.' Which means that we don't always understand what it's doing.
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So he believed. Believed, but the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.
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Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves, and flatter them.
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As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus
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god
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sinners
saints
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He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.
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Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing? You answered... I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act. You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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liars
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I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then.
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Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get." "That's what you said about the brother." "The brother tested out impossible. For other reasons. Nothing to do with his ability." "Same with the sister. And there are doubts about him. He's too malleable. Too willing to submerge himself in someone else's will." "Not if the other person is his enemy." "So w..
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Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers."
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scholars
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The warmth of mutual respect...Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The little bitch. She didn't have her files in another computer. She kept everything she knew inside her head.
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It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.
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Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.
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But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.
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Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
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humour
funny
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Orson Scott Card |
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All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.
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dreams
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We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion. Danny was touched. "But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car?" "You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny," Leslie replied. "I think you're overlooking the biggest point here," said Danny. "I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL." --
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Paciencia: Hay gente que hace cosas por miedo al latigo. Hay gente que hace cosas por temor a perder sus familias o sus vidas. Hay gente a la cual es posible comprar y vender. ?Acaso no son esclavos? - Voluntad: Son esclavos de sus pasiones. Su miedo les gobierna. ?Que poder tienes sobre mi si tu latigo no me da miedo? ?Soy tu esclavo si no temo perder a mi familia? Te obedezco de forma completa y fiel porque asi lo he escogido: ?soy tu esc..
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Orson Scott Card |
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We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.
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