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"So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.""Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy."
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"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."
"Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. That's because they were stupid."
"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."
"They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn't just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don't have a language at all. We used every means we could think of to communicate with them, but they don't even have the machinery to know we're signaling. And maybe they've been trying to think to us, and they can't understand why we don't respond."
"[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back."
"He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care."
"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."
"A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war."
"Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf."
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