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If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or s...more

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It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live ...more

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Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu....more

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You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.

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For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

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Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was t...more

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O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Abs...more

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But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved commu...more