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

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  Christian, Eye, People

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

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• Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

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  Hurt, Lying, Adults

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.18, Macmillan

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• 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

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• Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

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  Sacrifice, Race, Will To Survive

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.190, Macmillan

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• The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

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  Pain, Fear, Grief

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1232, Macmillan

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• Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.

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  Dream, Judging, Loving You

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.266, Macmillan

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• What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

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  Home, Soldier, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.333, Macmillan

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• He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

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  Beautiful, Understanding, Dangerous

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

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• I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

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  Hate, Love You, Heart

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.307, Macmillan

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• I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

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  Past, Seeing, I Can

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.193, Macmillan

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• In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

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  Intelligent, Self, People

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.89, Macmillan

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• I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

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  Having Hope, Left, Ifs

  Orson Scott Card (1986). “Ender's war”

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• When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

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  World, Faces, Walks

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• I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

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  Long, Enough, Plant

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.36, Macmillan

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• So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

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  Naps, Want, Next

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.141, Macmillan

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• From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

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  Clever, Enemy, Stronger

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.148, Macmillan

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  World, Might, Today

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• 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

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• 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

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• Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

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  Heart, Battle, Warfare

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.184, Macmillan

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• 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

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• 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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• Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

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  Ender, Poke

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.331, Macmillan

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