“The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants ”
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“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
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