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"Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
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"The root system supports the branches."
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Personal Development
"Truth has no duality."
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Personal Development
"Too much truth is uncouth."
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Personal Development
"The only freedom of choice you have is the ability to define your own path and destiny."
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Personal Development
"To refuse Jesus as the messiah is to be a hypocrite."
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Personal Development
"You have no control of uncertainties! You can only control your life and your reaction to any event. May you find grace for patient endurance."
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Personal Development
"The truth speaks for itself."
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"On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!"
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"To deny kingdom realities is not to pay the price."
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"Where there is truth and error there is always compromise. Within some churches there is a movement to reshape the Christian messageto make it more acceptable to man."
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"These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway."
Courage
"Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings."
Psychology
"...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time."
Education
"I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore."
Family
"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
Military
"So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth."
Morality
"One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself."
Mind
"He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream."
Emotion
"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."
Life
"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."
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