No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.


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From you I can learn things that nobody knows.
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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to tr...
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Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (an...
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A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that mornin...
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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it...
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Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation."
"What was it, target practice? Ch...
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I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food...
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It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding ...
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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving gr...
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Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena...
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There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and foreve...
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a...
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Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, t...
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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own ina...
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And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
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Stories are invented as you go along...
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But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...
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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, ...
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I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a cha...
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The piggies were not to be disturbed-
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Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if ...
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I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war
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We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world o...
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I’m not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven’t found one yet, that I didn’t say...
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The computer is also not famous for having mercy.
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Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
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I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his...
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Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
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The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of thos...
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Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha...
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Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like ...
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You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.
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I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.
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I thought commanders could order anything.”
"They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but i...
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Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do,...
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Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.
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That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every br...
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We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shor...
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I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled i...
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When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
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Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
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There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do ...
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He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
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Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officer...
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I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
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I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:

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