# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Earthborn

> We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [Earthborn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn/we-all-choose

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> Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

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> The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.

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> They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.

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