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Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
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Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a ...
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one wil...
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All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?
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Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I fel...
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Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said i...
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We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we drea...
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I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.
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You want to beat Peter?" she asked
"No," he answered
"Beat the buggers. Then come home an...
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If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be...
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You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I li...
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You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act ...
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We're not taking odds on it,” said Ender. “Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exis...
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Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, wh...
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Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
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Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...
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It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had...
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Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside t...
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Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave...
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The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
"'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're prete...
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Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitani...
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
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Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
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The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
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I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and ...
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When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other...
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