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When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.
I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right
Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.
I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.
To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.
"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.