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Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
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You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.
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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
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For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
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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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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.
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My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots. But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.
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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
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I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
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Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.
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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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Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
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Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
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Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
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I need you to be clever, Bean. 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.
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The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
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Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
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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.
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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.
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I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.
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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.
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Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.
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Because 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.
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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.
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