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Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

Approximate author period: c. 1951 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Orson Scott Card
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1951 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1951; activity date not established; Wikidata Q217110, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217110 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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