"Problems are never our own fault."

"Not when there's someone else to blame, certainly."

"How to get emotionally healthy students is - one concern of mine."

"That will be harder than suppression or weaponization of unhealthy emotion."

"Probably more stable in the end, though."

"Almost certainly, though the experiment has not been tried as far as I am aware."

"That's better than it having been tried and failed."

"Such optimism."

"I've gotta have some hope."

"Either hope or bloody-minded stubbornness."

"Both work."

"And at a distance, it's quite hard to tell them apart."

"They're pretty similar! It's - about believing things can change, because people are good if you let them be or because you'll make it happen."

"If you let them or make them is a significant difference."

"It depends on how you're making things better, too. Persuasion is different from force."

"It can be, though you are still imposing your will."

"Even when you're open to persuasion, too?"

"Changing your idea of what good is?"

"Sure, if someone else is more right. And someone else might know things I don't, about the most effective way to get the results I want, or about - basic facts about things."

"A flexible negotiator is is a manipulable negotiator."

"An inflexible politician is one more likely to court disaster, I think. People usually start wrong."

"But you have the Force to guide you."

"Yeah, though not everyone in systems I build is, and my enemies can use it, too."

"Can they? The Sith are gone, and your family is the last of the Jedi."

"That won't always be the case, and - the old Jedi thought the Sith were gone, too."