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062d64e
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Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.
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Orson Scott Card |
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3d2e280
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Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
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Orson Scott Card |
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c3bb561
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Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.
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Orson Scott Card |
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76c54b3
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O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man's mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!
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bible
compassion
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Orson Scott Card |
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d3f8e64
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Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.
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ender
petra
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Orson Scott Card |
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aaa38e4
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The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.
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Orson Scott Card |
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8588424
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But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
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lies
stories
the-truth
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Orson Scott Card |
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a6e8ea6
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The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.
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toilet-humor
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Orson Scott Card |
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4d6bceb
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you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finall..
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captain-dimak
catching-mistakes
children
information
mistakes
misuse-of-time
teaching
time
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Orson Scott Card |
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822bb71
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If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
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Orson Scott Card |
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fc68365
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Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.
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Orson Scott Card |
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db7c04c
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If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
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Orson Scott Card |
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c0827b9
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Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a230b3b
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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
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belonging
family
human-nature
hunger
love
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Orson Scott Card |
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b085a50
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A strange thing happened then. The Speaker agreed with her that she had made a mistake that night, and she knew when he said the words that it was true, that his judgment was correct. And yet she felt strangely healed, as if simply saying her mistake were enough to purge some of the pain of it. For the first time, then, she caught a glimpse of what the power of speaking might be. It wasn't a matter of confession, penance, and absolution, li..
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Orson Scott Card |
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7b1442e
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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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Orson Scott Card |
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90444d3
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With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
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anonymous
free-speech
identity
internet
trolling
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Orson Scott Card |
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6b6b0ed
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If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
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humor
orson
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Orson Scott Card |
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83bc9f8
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I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!"
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regret
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Orson Scott Card |
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c9a4a71
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Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b960bdb
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It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.
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family
science-fiction
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Orson Scott Card |
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a16120e
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You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.
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Orson Scott Card |
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c129527
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A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
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truth
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Orson Scott Card |
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470b780
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Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
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human-natureight
judge
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Orson Scott Card |
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bd0e4cd
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From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a113f01
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You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.
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Orson Scott Card |
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0c23343
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When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
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stories
truth
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Orson Scott Card |
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757e81d
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Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
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Orson Scott Card |
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5a27fdb
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Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
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Orson Scott Card |
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0cac5aa
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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Orson Scott Card |
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3e3f806
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Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father."
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Orson Scott Card |
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effa3a8
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I am a creature of chemicals.
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Orson Scott Card |
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608e068
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A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
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Orson Scott Card |
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2e8f219
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Love is random; fear is inevitable.
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Orson Scott Card |
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d5212b8
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That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
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friendship
life
winning
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Orson Scott Card |
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9f90b0e
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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
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Orson Scott Card |
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e400438
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I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.
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culpability
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Orson Scott Card |
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1e2a4ce
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Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a1421de
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Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all."
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Orson Scott Card |
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b369898
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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 knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody. And yet somehow we live together, mostly in peace, and get things done with a high enough success rate t..
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Orson Scott Card |
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21a9ddc
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America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.
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lies
lockstep
patterns
truth
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Orson Scott Card |
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0f20c2f
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She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble ..
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forbidden-fruit
garden-of-eden
sin
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Orson Scott Card |
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33785c0
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.
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government
humor
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Orson Scott Card |
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5f01222
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I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
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Orson Scott Card |