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Ender's Game
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"Ender's Game" Quotes

In "Ender's Game," a brilliant young boy named Ender Wiggin is recruited and trained through a series of intense and strategic games to become humanity's greatest hope against an impending alien threat.

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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

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identitytransformationself-perception

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

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dutysacrificeexpectations

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

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understandingloveempathy

There is no teacher but the enemy.

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learningconflictgrowth

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along—the same person that I am today.

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childhoodidentitygrowth

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

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effortresponsibilityfailure

The way we win matters.

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victoryethicsmorality

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

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manipulationconflictauthority

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet.

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intelligenceproblem-solvinginnovation

I don't care how you treat me, as long as you're there.

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companionshiplonelinessrelationships