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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

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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Army, Deception, Enemy
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.81, Macmillan

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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People, Understanding, Way
Orson Scott Card (2001). “Rebekah”

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

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Giving, Purpose, Life Is
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.666, Macmillan

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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Daughter, Home, Tunnels
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.235, Macmillan

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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Children, Home, Heart
Orson Scott Card (2008). “Ender in Exile”, p.403, Macmillan

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.

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Believe, Doubt, World
"The Call Of Earth". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1992.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

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Thinking, Two Sides, Coins

Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.

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Sweet, Believe, Valentine
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.17, Hachette UK

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

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Alive, Born, Ifs
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.32, Macmillan

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

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Stupid, Beans, Prove
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.113, Macmillan

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

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Drunk, Brain, Desire

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

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War, Irritation, Bachelors
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1337, Macmillan

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

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Waste, Wasting Time

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

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Mother, Husband, Men
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.86, Macmillan

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

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Mean, Monsters, Doe
Orson Scott Card (1986). “Ender's war”

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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Creativity, Men, Order
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Giant”, p.303, Macmillan

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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People, Soldier, Groups
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Empire”, p.93, Macmillan

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

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Courage, Love Is, Luxury
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Empire”, p.64, Macmillan

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

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Real, Issues, Fiction

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

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Mother, Children, Mistake
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.20, Macmillan

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

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Kindness, People, World
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.230, Macmillan

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

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Vampire, Today, Darcy

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

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Care, Tests, Firsts
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.216, Macmillan

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

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Thinking, Mind, Surprise
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.616, Macmillan

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

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Book, Law, Behavior
"The Hypocrites of Homosexuality" by Orson Scott Card in Sunstone Magazine, www.nauvoo.com. 1990.

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