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ae955a4
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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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4a47e00
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Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be unco..
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humorous
sister-carlotta
inspirational
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Orson Scott Card |
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8fec24a
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
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Orson Scott Card |
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8f6300d
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Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
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Orson Scott Card |
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I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the only rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am you..
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Orson Scott Card |
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There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; 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
peter-wiggin
ender-wiggin
will-to-power
helplessness
power
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Orson Scott Card |
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81c9528
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them." --
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Orson Scott Card |
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1f41a97
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The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them--noticing them--that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong..
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Orson Scott Card |
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6fb6a2d
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What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is."
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Orson Scott Card |
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db89ba9
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Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live."
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relationships
patience
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Orson Scott Card |
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a47079c
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Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
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order
disorder
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Orson Scott Card |
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3342e97
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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too."
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Orson Scott Card |
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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.
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Orson Scott Card |
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2e92fbe
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Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.
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poke
ender
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Orson Scott Card |
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d14dec9
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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.
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the-truth
good-people
pretending
hypocrisy
human-nature
roles
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Orson Scott Card |
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0a08503
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Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire."
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Orson Scott Card |
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d153ee1
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Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.
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Orson Scott Card |
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dd2a061
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a81fb6a
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Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
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Orson Scott Card |
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d0ab16b
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The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce Of course you feel that way. Your mates are nothing but mindless drones, extensions of yourself, without their own identity. ..
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Orson Scott Card |
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8e7b7f5
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Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map."
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Orson Scott Card |
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0739057
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I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--
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Orson Scott Card |
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So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said..."
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humor
love
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Orson Scott Card |
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15f8335
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We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war."
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Orson Scott Card |
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bd61a6f
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So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.' 'About right,' Bean replied.
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nameless-hero
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Orson Scott Card |
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98e430b
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Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
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Orson Scott Card |
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42b96a8
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Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
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intentions
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Orson Scott Card |
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Come on," he said to Valentine one day. "Let's fly away and live forever." "We can't," she said. "There are miracles even relativity can't pull off, Ender." "We have to go. I'm almost happy here." "So, stay." "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it." So they boarded a starship and went from world to world. Wherever they stopped, he was always Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, and she was always Valentin..
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Orson Scott Card |
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2a72bae
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One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
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tzu
hot
soup
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Orson Scott Card |
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f0b58b6
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I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
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death
humor
life
funny-but-sad
goals
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Orson Scott Card |
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ac68cc8
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Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
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Orson Scott Card |
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5a431fe
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But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?
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Orson Scott Card |
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5f1b5ff
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There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
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motivational
inspirational
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Orson Scott Card |
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6212f46
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I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
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valentine
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Orson Scott Card |
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1971733
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He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
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bean
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Orson Scott Card |
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f68e1e6
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If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
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Orson Scott Card |
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51fef0e
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The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
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war
learning
ender
mentor
strategy
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Orson Scott Card |
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83fc8a8
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People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.
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Orson Scott Card |
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f61c92d
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The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong--for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bo..
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sacrifice
buggers
value-of-life
human-nature
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Orson Scott Card |
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6552b9d
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What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.
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understanding-others
understanding-oneself-and-others
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Orson Scott Card |
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cd38440
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I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
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Orson Scott Card |