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Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
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religion
love
philosophy
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Orson Scott Card |
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When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
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world
life
forgiveness
journey
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Orson Scott Card |
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who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world."
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world
meaning
life
purpuse
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Orson Scott Card |
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8167593
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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. I follow [God], I believe [God], because I want to live in the world that [God] has shown me.
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Orson Scott Card |
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A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.
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Orson Scott Card |
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I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.
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life
love
truth
forgivness
ender
comprehension
genius
regret
crazy
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Orson Scott Card |
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70b0bbe
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I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak.
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Orson Scott Card |
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You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act just like you want them to, Mother, you'll always feel betrayed. And because eventually everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat, Mother. You're the one who uses our love for us to try to control us.
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Orson Scott Card |
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But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with. The result was that you ended up with a command structure that was top-heavy with guys who looked go..
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success
careerism
company-culture
ladder-of-success
business-leaders
corporate-culture
unfairness-of-life
military
promotion
human-nature
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Orson Scott Card |
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1d3e2e0
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Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin
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Orson Scott Card |
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The Earth is deep, and right to the heart it's alive. 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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Orson Scott Card |
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When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
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Orson Scott Card |
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e33ab0e
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You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.
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belief
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Orson Scott Card |
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And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again..
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grief
greed
death
saddest-thing
the-princess-and-the-bear
lost-innocence
the-end
too-late
growing-up
regret
lost
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Orson Scott Card |
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52f2aae
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But I am designed to last forever," said the expendable, "if not interfered with." "Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be able to go back and observe any part of human history that you wish. Watch the pyramids being unbuilt. See the ice ages go and come in reverse. Watch the de-extinction of the dinosaurs as a meteor leaps out of the Gulf of Mexico." "I will have no useful task. I will not be able to help the human race in any ..
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Orson Scott Card |
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Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none."
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pathfinder
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Orson Scott Card |
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69a3176
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We have discussed your definition, analyzed its ramifications to a reasonable depth, and accept it," said the expendable. "Meaning I gave you what you wanted?" "Ambition and desire are human traits. You gave us what we lacked."
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Orson Scott Card |
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Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. That's because they were stupid.
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poke
share
ignorance
stupid
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Orson Scott Card |
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80e1c7f
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Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.
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following
power
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Orson Scott Card |
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59a83bb
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Because human nature never changes.
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failure
human-nature
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Orson Scott Card |
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3ee0c55
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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko"
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religion
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Orson Scott Card |
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252c91f
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He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life."
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Orson Scott Card |
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In the real world irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur.
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Orson Scott Card |
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It's not enough just to laugh at good fortune and say, 'Enough already.' You have to really mean it -- that you have enough. And because you mean it, you take the surplus and you give it away. Similarly, when bad fortune comes, you bear it until it becomes unbearable -- your family is hungry, or you can no longer function in your work. And then again you say, 'Enough already,' and you change something. You move; you change careers; you let ..
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Orson Scott Card |
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Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Jesus that Helga preached about in her kitchen while they ate. She died for her people. And Achilles, he was like God. He made people pay for their sins no matter what they did. The important thin..
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metaphor
murder
jesus
god
poke
bean
forgiveness
survival
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Orson Scott Card |
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d9c5fe0
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Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.
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Orson Scott Card |
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The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,
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Orson Scott Card |
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It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
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Orson Scott Card |
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I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.
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Orson Scott Card |
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He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
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Orson Scott Card |
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Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
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humanity
soul
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Orson Scott Card |
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He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
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value
possession
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Orson Scott Card |
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5c76e69
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Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
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deception
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Orson Scott Card |
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.
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Orson Scott Card |
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Because these fools always look up for power. 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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people
hope
respect
power
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Orson Scott Card |
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041ceae
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We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,
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life
love
fail
genius
failure
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Orson Scott Card |
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aef7bd0
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Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
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Orson Scott Card |
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1c77ae1
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Ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
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Orson Scott Card |
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We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.
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moderates
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Orson Scott Card |
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e46667d
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I speak to everyone in the language they understand," said Ender. "That isn't being slick. It's being clear"
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Orson Scott Card |
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ba94ce8
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What I want," he said softly, "is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun."
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Orson Scott Card |
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6f3c7a1
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Test can't messure what really matters.
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Orson Scott Card |
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7dfb4ab
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Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die...the truth about ourselves. Somehow this ancient man is able to see the truth and it doesn't blind his eyes or drive him mad. I must listen to this voice and let its power come to me so I, too, can stare at the light and not die.
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Orson Scott Card |