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“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along—the same person that I am today.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“Remember, the enemy’s gate is down.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they’ve been given.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“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.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time in your life.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“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.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself dictator, and died for it.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“We have to go. I’m almost happy here.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“I’m putting you in Dink Meeker’s toon. From now on, as far as you’re concerned, Dink Meeker is God.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“So the whole war is because we can’t talk to each other.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“Since when . . . do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Early to bed and early to rise . . . makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“Nature can’t evolve a species that hasn’t a will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“I stole their future from them; I can only begin to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“There were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Real respect takes longer than official respect.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“That’s the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. You lose friends.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“I taught you everything you know. But I didn’t teach you everything I know.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing...”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“I want to go home . . . but I don’t know where it is. ”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“Let the boys learn that leniency comes from their toon leaders, and harshness from their commander—it will bind them better in the small, tight knots of this fabric.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have—everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.”
Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game
“I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven’t seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they’re absolutely stupid.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“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.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
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