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44e77fb
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Everything we do means something, Ender realized. Them laughing. Me not laughing. He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn't think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn't find such a place in himself.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mind..
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discovery
stupidity
humanity
pequeninos
intelligence
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Orson Scott Card |
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45bc3c3
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I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.
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suffering
honest
cruel
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Orson Scott Card |
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b8c8af1
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Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each ..
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religion
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Orson Scott Card |
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ad3bda3
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While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
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kids
reality
life
love
truth
ender
humans
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Orson Scott Card |
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8b718b3
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we're all trying to decide wether your scores are up there are a miricule or a mistake. a habit
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Orson Scott Card |
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a3b5d3f
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They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn't just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don't..
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reading
writing
telepathy
language
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Orson Scott Card |
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3ee9686
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No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do. There was no place in that list for "feel." Not that Bean didn't have feelings. He simply refused to think about them or dwell on them or let them influence his decisions, when anything important was at stake."
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Orson Scott Card |
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Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the profound truth that you must reveal your stupidity openly. To hold your stupidity inside you is to embrace it, to cling to it, to protect it. But when you expose your stupidity, you give yourself the chance to have it caught, corrected, and rep..
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stupidity
humiliation
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Orson Scott Card |
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b35a1f5
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to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-story-what they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regretted, what they rejoiced in. That's the story that we never know, the story that we never can know-and yet, at the time of death, it's the only story truly worth telling.
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Orson Scott Card |
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94be176
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Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a188fd0
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All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.
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Orson Scott Card |
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6e741d6
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He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.
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isolation
respect
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Orson Scott Card |
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67293ff
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So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.
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war
miscommunication
genius
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Orson Scott Card |
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1a1bb65
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Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember--the enemy's gate is . If you step through your own door like you're out for a stroll, you're a big target and you deserve to get hit. With more than a flasher.
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flasher
target
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Orson Scott Card |
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25da2b6
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I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.
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Orson Scott Card |
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90c5c95
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She likes us," said Umbo. "I know, I could feel it too," said Rigg. "She's really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children." "Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew." "They were delicious."
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Orson Scott Card |
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5fcaeab
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper " --
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Orson Scott Card |
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bb77cbf
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The kid is scary.
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kids
space
science-fiction
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Orson Scott Card |
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fda4975
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Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans."
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plans
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Orson Scott Card |
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f34ccaa
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Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays." Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the p..
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mind
brain
museum
honor
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Orson Scott Card |
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11f0d58
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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.
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Orson Scott Card |
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84c45ec
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Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?"
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Orson Scott Card |
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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you."
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love
judging
jane
pee
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Orson Scott Card |
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c1551b7
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He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.
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self-pity
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Orson Scott Card |
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197cbcc
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I thought commanders could order anything." "They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn't happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you."
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ender-quintet
ender-wiggin
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Orson Scott Card |
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0a67d49
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I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew. The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new, And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you.
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soulmates
self
soul
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Orson Scott Card |
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03e5080
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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universe
life
purpose
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Orson Scott Card |
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f0e79ee
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I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
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Orson Scott Card |
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6b9e07a
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Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
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slavery
path
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Orson Scott Card |
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1714bdd
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The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.
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responsibility
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Orson Scott Card |
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8a8575c
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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history
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Orson Scott Card |
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f8dc682
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it's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself... it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might be worth the price you pay.
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Orson Scott Card |
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He lay in bed staring upward into the darkness. On the bunk above him, he could hear Peter turning and tossing restlessly. Then Peter slid off the bunk and walked out of the room. Ender heard the hushing sound of the toilet clearing; then Peter stood silhouetted in the doorway. He thinks I'm asleep. He's going to kill me. Peter walked to the bed, and sure enough, he did not lift himself up to his bed. Instead he came and stood by Ender's he..
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family
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Orson Scott Card |
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2a70c34
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The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a8ff646
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Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
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Orson Scott Card |
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33aa559
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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.' '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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In my experience, influence is power.
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power
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Orson Scott Card |
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ac69d08
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I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!
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tricked
killer
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Orson Scott Card |
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25b67cd
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It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.
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Orson Scott Card |
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605c60d
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Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val"
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Orson Scott Card |
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1798373
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Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf."
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deaf
justice
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Orson Scott Card |
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5652bcf
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He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.
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bean
ender
anguish
hiding
isolation
burden
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Orson Scott Card |