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Stories are invented as you go along...

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Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

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I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

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Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scie...more

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Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

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By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most...more

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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

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My father once told methat there are no gods;only the cruel manipulationsof evil peoplewho pretended that their power was goodand their exploitation w...more

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We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

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Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kin...more

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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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He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again ...more

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It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

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I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps i...more

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So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.