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That night Demosthenes publis...

That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

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nobody ever wrote to me sayin...

nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

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For children love is a feelin...

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

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You're like, both like, Alexa...

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

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Peter, you're twelve years ol...

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.

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For it is in the millions of ...

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

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If you asked me to marry you ...

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

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Science Fiction has rivets, f...

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

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And what? What's the other ch...

And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?

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He could see Bonzo's anger gr...

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

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Oh, I'll live Ender's life, t...

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

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I have to win this now, and f...

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

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Welcome to the human race. No...

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

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It's easy to manipulate your ...

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

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Mom," said Peter, "nobody thi...

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

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Perhaps every writer who thor...

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

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Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill...

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

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Personal humiliation was pain...

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

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A duel is just two murders wh...

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

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When you have faith in someth...

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

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