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Book: Ender's Game
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playingalong, playing along, believing it too until suddenly the adults went too far, tried too hard, and the childrencould see through their game.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
So what do we do now?" asked Alai. "The bugger war's over, and so's the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now?" "We're kids," said Petra. "They'll probably make us go to school. It's a law. You have to go to school till you're seventeen." They all laughed at that.
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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.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man.
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Orson Scott Card _ 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.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?" "For both of us, Val." "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." "But we don't think like other children, do we, Val? We don't talk like other children. And above all, we don't write like other children." "For a discussion that began with death threats, Peter, we've strayed from the topic, I think.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
It was even before he left Earth that he first thought of it as a planet, like any other, not particularly his own.
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