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There might not be as many outstanding shooters who would get a quick shot, so teams have to work the ball around a little more. Ours is really on a need basis. We have one double-figure scorer [Derek Adams]. We're trying to run offense. We've actually held the ball more in past years trying to spread people out when we were ahead.


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ORSON SCOTT CARD Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly,...
ORSON SCOTT CARD What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get us...
ORSON SCOTT CARD When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really kn...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
ORSON SCOTT CARD ...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt ra...
ORSON SCOTT CARD What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing'...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable thi...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
ORSON SCOTT CARD In order to learn, one must change one's mind
ORSON SCOTT CARD But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to a...
ORSON SCOTT CARD For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Might-have-beens are a bitch.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's s...
ORSON SCOTT CARD No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I didn't want to see you."
"They told me."
"I was afraid that I'd still love you."
"I...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
ORSON SCOTT CARD