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I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
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People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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