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• I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

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  Children, Ideas, Care

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.80, Macmillan

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• O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

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  Son, Men, Knowing

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.369, Macmillan

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• Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

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  Integrity, Cutting, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.790, Macmillan

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• Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

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  Humble, Men, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

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  Knowing, May, Bears

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.87, Macmillan

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• ...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

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  Inspirational, Brother, Down And

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.226, Macmillan

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• I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

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  Games, Battle, Helping

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• If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

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  Hypocrite, Practice, Church

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• As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

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  Adversity, Hard Times, Long

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• I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

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  Australia, Asteroids

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Shadow Of The Giant: Book 4 of the Shadow Saga”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

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  Time, Lying, Love You

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.232, Macmillan

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• Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

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  Done, Testing, Consensus

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• The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

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  Time, Long, Causes

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.13, Macmillan

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• His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

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  Time, Vices, Culture

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.48, Macmillan

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• How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

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  Clever, Pathways, Hell

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.291, Macmillan

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• Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

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  Liberty, Impossible, Argument

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• That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

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  Faces, Staring, Ultimate

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.242, Macmillan

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• You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.

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  Growing Up, Writing, House

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• He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

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  Olvidado

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

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  Running, Couple, Moving

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• You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?

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  Jobs, Congratulations, Army

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.205, Tor Science Fiction

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• Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

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  Winning, Firsts, Winner

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.206, Macmillan

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• The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

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  Stupid, Class, Careers

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• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

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  Ignorance, Hard Times, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

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• There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

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  Charity, Sometimes, Without Hope

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “Saints”, p.229, Macmillan

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