You made them hate me." Said Under"So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." -Graph

— Orson Scott Card

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

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You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly." You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful."" Memory does play tricks on us."" No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake.

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You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

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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.

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Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that eve nth threat of death won't take it from you.

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...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.

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You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind.

— Orson Scott Card

You were baptized?"" My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in.

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You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile. The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan, and they shouldn't talk to me.

— Orson Scott Card