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But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

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Father, Men, Taught
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Pathfinder”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

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Enders Game, Subjects, Ifs
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.137, Macmillan

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

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War, Lying, Winning
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

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Ego, Difficult, Seems

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

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Two Sides, Two, Coins
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

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Toilets, Reason, Elimination
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.99, Macmillan

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

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Wise, Men, Lord
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.826, Macmillan

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.” "Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

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Mean, Miscarriage, Justice
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.338, Macmillan

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

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Children, Commitment, Love Is
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Pathfinder”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

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Heart, Battle, Warfare
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.308, Tor Science Fiction

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

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Dream, Lonely, Animal
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.234, Macmillan

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

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Love You, Want, Stills
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.180, Macmillan

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

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Art, Believe, Stories
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.600, Macmillan

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

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Today, Tomorrow

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

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Hurt, Heart, Sadness
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.561, Macmillan

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

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Father, Ignorance, Ignorant

The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees, then that is what the tribe is. Even though some of the oldest trees here came from warriors of two different tribes, fallen in battle. We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe." Ender marveled at his mind, this small raman [member of another sentient species]. How few humans were able to grasp this idea, or let it extend beyond the narrow confines of their tribe, their family, their nation.

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Believe, Warrior, Ideas
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.484, Macmillan

Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

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Mother, Memories, Reading

A broken clock is right two times a day.

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Two, Broken, Clock
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.81, Macmillan

As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.

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Giving Up, Self, People

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

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What If, Chaos, Turmoil
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.528, Macmillan

Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

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Strong, Valentine, Passion
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.235, Tor Books

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

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Hate, Wells, Asks
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.96, Macmillan

She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children.” “Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew.” “They were delicious.

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Children, Cutting, Thinking
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Pathfinder”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

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Dream, Home, Said
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.179, Macmillan

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