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Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them. Human: You don't believe in God? Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began. Human: You evolved. We were created. Hive Queen: By a virus. Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us. Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer. Human: I understand belief. Hive Queen: No--you desire bel..
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religion
illusions
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Orson Scott Card |
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74ffc6a
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What are you reading?" Polonius asked. "Words, words, words," said Hamlet. "And what's the subject?" "Lesser than the king, but still not nothing." It took Polonius a moment to realize he had answered another meaning of 'subject.' "I mean what do you read about?" "All in a line, back and forth." said Hamlet. "I go from left to right with my mind full, and then must drop it there and head back empty-headed to the left side again, and take up..
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obtuse
polonius
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Orson Scott Card |
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3722a15
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I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.
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the-speaker
ender-wiggin
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Orson Scott Card |
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fa640b3
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We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.
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ender-wiggin
valentine
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Orson Scott Card |
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0ff366f
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In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me."
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dreams
ender
genius
person
crazy
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Orson Scott Card |
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d3e61c6
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The loneliness of power.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b22690a
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You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.
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life
love
push
ender
genius
crazy
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Orson Scott Card |
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d035621
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He was discovered with his feet stuck to the ceiling in the bathroom with his head stuffed in the toilet...
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petra
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Orson Scott Card |
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c8b1675
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To keep dignity, and give honor when it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace.
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Orson Scott Card |
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013a7a5
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No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.
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Orson Scott Card |
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0f59113
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It isn't the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn't want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive.
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ecology
humans
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Orson Scott Card |
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52d8296
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Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins--thoroughly. If anybody's going to be scared, let it be the buggers." "Makes you almost feel sorry for them, knowing Ender's going to be coming after them."
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Orson Scott Card |
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dc72e93
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Maybe that's who you are, what you remember." - Valentine"
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Orson Scott Card |
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2487b52
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That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets and winds and birds. And the voice of one girl, who spoke to him out of his far-off childho..
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Orson Scott Card |
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980d2e7
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To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.
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hammer
sci-fi
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Orson Scott Card |
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9fc96b7
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It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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wisdom
wise
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Orson Scott Card |
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f7e5e2f
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the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
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Orson Scott Card |
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810bd3c
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You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.
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Orson Scott Card |
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bf81907
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Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn't know how to handle themselves in battle.
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Orson Scott Card |
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06aea1c
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Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone." Chapter 3, pg 1 - Ender's Game"
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Orson Scott Card |
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c19e52b
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Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.
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Orson Scott Card |
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94b7a8c
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be
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Orson Scott Card |
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bc6301b
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There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer.
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Orson Scott Card |
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d21fd1c
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Once you realize that power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it, I think that there are worse people who could have it than Peter.
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science-fiction
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Orson Scott Card |
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8788842
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Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.
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Orson Scott Card |
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c4f125c
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If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance.
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Orson Scott Card |
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0d317fe
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It was even before he left Earth that he first thought of it as a planet, like any other, not particularly his own.
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Orson Scott Card |
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c01d74e
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Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
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Orson Scott Card |
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7e00910
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I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry.
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parents
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Orson Scott Card |
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5c597d7
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Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?" "For both of us, Val." "Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice." "But we don't think like other children, do we, Val? We don't talk like other children. And above all, we don't write like other children." "For a discussion that began with death threats,..
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Orson Scott Card |
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092333c
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The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
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pain
power
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Orson Scott Card |
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c50eab7
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Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man."
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Orson Scott Card |
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4b73686
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I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly--I'll beat you unfairly first.
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Orson Scott Card |
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ad2b439
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So what do we do now?" asked Alai. "The bugger war's over, and so's the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now?" "We're kids," said Petra. "They'll probably make us go to school. It's a law. You have to go to school till you're seventeen." They all laughed at that."
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Orson Scott Card |
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bd2c07c
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Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.
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wang-mu
starship
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Orson Scott Card |
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fb02673
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the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
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Orson Scott Card |
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3bd9b13
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Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance."
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philosophical
thrill
robots
human-nature
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Orson Scott Card |
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b6835d1
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You can deny any sacrifice by claiming that it made the sufferer feel so good to do it that it really wasn't a sacrifice at all, but just another selfish act.
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Orson Scott Card |
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bf9d8a1
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All the way up to the surface, Valentine struggled to make sense of what had happened. She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so..
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Orson Scott Card |
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66fc210
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I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy. Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin."
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Orson Scott Card |
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aaa1347
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Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?
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tragedy
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Orson Scott Card |
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2c5c136
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Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
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Orson Scott Card |
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f6ed4db
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She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.
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Orson Scott Card |
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5677399
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I spend all my time thinking things through. It's acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore?
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Orson Scott Card |