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• There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

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  Children, Father, Names

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

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  Children, Clever, Fate

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.207, Macmillan

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• Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

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  Fun, Having Fun, Madness

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• 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

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• As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

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  Done, Might, Imagine

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.76, Macmillan

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

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  Order, Said, Speakers

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.95, Macmillan

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• He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

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  Hot, Use, Growing

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.84, Macmillan

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• For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

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  People, Giving, Events

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.843, Tor Science Fiction

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• It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

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  Hurt, Pain, Ruins

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.101, Macmillan

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

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  Enemy, Enders Game, Ender

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

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• I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

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  Concerned, Officers, Personnel

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.76, Macmillan

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• History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

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  Eggs, Broken

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Stupid, Eye, Views

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• yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system

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  Yesterday, Messages, Said

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• nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

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  Book, Games, Needs

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Strong, Men

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• I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

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  Kissing, Thinking, Tears

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1250, Macmillan

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• This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

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  People, Judging, Appearance

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.100, Macmillan

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