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  1. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros."~Sel Menach
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  2. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!
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  3. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
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  4. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.
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  5. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice.
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  6. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.
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  7. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    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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  8. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    There was some enthusiasm for a Caliban village, but it quickly dissipated when people contemplated a future village school and what the mascot might look like.
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  9. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
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  10. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    In the real world irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur.
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  11. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

    As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It's like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is "descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there." Willingness is the single most important test.
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  12. Orson Scott Card _ Ender in Exile

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