Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead (1986)

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But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. 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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When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.

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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

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We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them.

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Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

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You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

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