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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card
Fall, Intellectual, Ulysses

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Orson Scott Card
Book, Gun, Next Week

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Orson Scott Card
Inspirational, Success, Motivational Work
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

Orson Scott Card
Passion, Character, Men
"Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1996.

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

Orson Scott Card
World, Might, Today

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

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Fighting, Long, Citizens

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Orson Scott Card
Grief, Loss
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.54, Macmillan

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Secret, Way
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.62, Macmillan

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Orson Scott Card
Tree, Fiction, Fantasy

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Orson Scott Card
Irrational, Rationality
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.78, Macmillan

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Orson Scott Card
Opinion, Enough
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.68, Macmillan

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Orson Scott Card
Love Is, Inevitable
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.309, Macmillan

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Orson Scott Card
Clever, Stupid, Thinking
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.154, Macmillan

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

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Children, Years, People
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.109, Macmillan

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

Orson Scott Card
Christian, Eye, People
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.120, Macmillan

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Orson Scott Card
Real, Reading, Fiction

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

Orson Scott Card
Good Night, Tomorrow, Fairy
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.246, Macmillan

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Orson Scott Card
Real, Boys, Mind
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.350, Macmillan

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Orson Scott Card
Men, Ugly, God Love
Orson Scott Card (2001). “Rebekah”

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

Orson Scott Card
Men, Giving, Needs
"Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

Orson Scott Card
Teacher, Strong, Men

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?

Orson Scott Card
Enemy, Enders Game, Ender
"Ender's Game". Ch. 14: Ender's Teacher. Book by Orson Scott Card, 1985.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Orson Scott Card
Eggs, Broken

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

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Running, Children, Struggle
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Empire”, p.263, Macmillan

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

Orson Scott Card
Stupid, Eye, Views

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