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Our savior will resurrect us, said Peggy, but I haven't noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.
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It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
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She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.
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I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
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Wasn't that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.
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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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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that [she] was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
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If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he'd stay stupid.
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Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.
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Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?
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This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
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Law can change how people behave when others are watching — that's all.
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It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.
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The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.
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Black with hate, said Becca. You are gathering your people with hate.
Can you imagine conducting a war with love? asked Ta-Kumsaw.
That's a reason to refuse to make war at all, she said gently.
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
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I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
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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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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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August 24, 1951
(age 73)
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Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction.
Known for:
Ender's Game (1985)
Shadows Alive
Shadows in Flight (2012)
Speaker for the Dead (1986)
Ender's Shadow (1999)
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