"I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school."

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Orson Scott Card

#School Quotes #Self Quotes #Care Quotes

“Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.”
“While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.”
“Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.”
“If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? they have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. [...] If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money”
“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?”
“I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.”
“I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.”
“A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.”

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