# Quote — Orson Scott Card, The Call Of Earth

> How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [The Call Of Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/how-does-he

## More from this book

> Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.

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> Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will — will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

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> If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

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