# Quote — Orson Scott Card, The Call Of Earth

> Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.

- 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/keep-me-alive

## 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/if-i-wanted.md)