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“The enemy gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”
― Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
― Orson Scott Card

“As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“In order to learn, one must change one's mind.”
― Orson Scott Card

“It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.”
― Orson Scott Card, Enchantment

“The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“You who speak languages, you are such liars.”
― Orson Scott Card

“History is an omelette. The eggs are already broken.”
― Orson Scott Card

“You want to beat Peter?" she asked
"No," he answered
"Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win"
"You don't understand" he said
"Yes i do"
"No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter"
"Then what do you want?"
"I want him to love me”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

“We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.

Ender stopped. "Not from them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

“It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.”
― Orson Scott Card

“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself”
― Orson Scott Card

“The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,”
― Orson Scott Card, First Meetings in Ender's Universe

“Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.”
― Orson Scott Card, Seventh Son

“I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the small part still unknown.”
― Orson Scott Card

“Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."
"Not in the history books," said Valentine.
"Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“Humor is reason gone mad.”
― Groucho Marx

“If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.”
― Groucho Marx

“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”
― Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation.”
― Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

“You may control a mad elephant;
You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;
Ride the lion and play with the cobra;
By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;
You may wander through the universe incognito;
Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;
You may walk in water and live in fire;
But control of the mind is better and more difficult.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi