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You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you’ll accomplish, and nothing more.
– Orson Scott Card

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  3. Being here alone with nothing to do, I’ve been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly. – Orson Scott Card
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  10. Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable. – Orson Scott Card
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  17. I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
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