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Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

Albert Einstein wrote, 'A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from...

We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.

And, age is not a competitive issue.

In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

{Ruthie} ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

The only thing I ever saw that came close to Objective Journalism was a closed-circuit TV setup that watched shoplifters in the General Store at Woody Creek, Colorado.

Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own".

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

the end of the world as they knew it.

Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.

Do you think we're making a mistake? snapped the Bishop

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.

But I am designed to last forever, said the expendable, if not interfered with.Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be able to go back and observe any part of human history that you wish....

If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that...

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...

An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.

I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.