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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. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.Orson Scott Card
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You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.Orson Scott Card
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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.Orson Scott Card
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I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.Orson Scott Card
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.Orson Scott Card
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We have to go. I'm almost happy here.Orson Scott Card
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I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.Orson Scott Card
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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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There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.Orson Scott Card
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I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy. .Orson Scott Card
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[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.Orson Scott Card
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The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now. It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.Orson Scott Card
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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.Orson Scott Card
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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.Orson Scott Card
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me–to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.Orson Scott Card
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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
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I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.Orson Scott Card
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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
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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.Orson Scott Card
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There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; 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