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“ Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. ”

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

~ Orson Scott Card

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

~ Orson Scott Card

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

~ Orson Scott Card

You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

~ Orson Scott Card