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That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

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Winning, Problem, Ender
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.145, Macmillan

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

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Forgotten
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.87, Macmillan

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

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Inspirational, Brother, Down And
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.226, Macmillan

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

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Boys, Want, Kind
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.284, Macmillan

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

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Soldier, Too Much, Larger Than Life
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.349, Macmillan

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

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Past, Long, Acting
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.100, Macmillan

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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Children, Ideas, Care
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.80, Macmillan

O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

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Son, Men, Knowing
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.369, Macmillan

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

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Thinking, People, Laughing
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Saga Omnibus”, p.422, Hachette UK

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

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Integrity, Cutting, Men
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.790, Macmillan

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

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Thinking, People, Giving
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Shadow: Book 1 of The Shadow Saga”, p.17, Hachette UK

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

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Time, Vices, Culture
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.48, Macmillan

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

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Time, Long, Causes
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.13, Macmillan

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

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Fear, Winning, Men
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.91, Macmillan

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

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Science, Keys, Doors
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.97, Macmillan

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

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Liberty, Impossible, Argument

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

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Life, Desire, Humans
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Tor Books

Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.

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Book, Gay, Games
"'Ender's Game' author answers critics: Gay marriage issue is 'moot'" by Grady Smith, www.ew.com. July 08, 2013.

There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

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Couple, Gay, Needs
"Lionsgate Responds to Outcry over ENDER’S GAME Author Orson Scott Card’s Anti-Gay Comments" by Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 12, 2013.

Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.

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Religious, Children, Couple

There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.

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Thinking, Ideas, People

If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

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Hypocrite, Practice, Church

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

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Done, Testing, Consensus

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

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Games, Battle, Helping

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

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Time, Lying, Love You
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.232, Macmillan

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