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Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?
The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.
A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.
It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?
The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.
He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?
Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.