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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)

by Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)

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“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding

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“Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.”
― Jack Campbell, Invincible

tags: abuse-of-authority, security, state-secrets

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“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: happiness, humanity, mazer-rackham

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“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: identity, pretend

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: first-lines

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