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The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Brandon Sanderson

When I write my books, actually I’m known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
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Book Feet Writing
People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.
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Friends People Stories Young
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
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Absence Discomfort Joy
“Well,” Rock said, “is involving much mudbeer and singing.” “How’s that a duel?” “He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon’ everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about.” Teft laughed. “Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.
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Argument Drink Drunk Most Rock
In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.
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Arrogance End Worry
It’s like a banana farm for guns!
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Bananas Farms Gun
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn’t hear, long after the music actually stopped.
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Long People Trying
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
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Steps Steps Forward
How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.
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Frowning Happy Person
It’s actually a rather romantic and dramatic story — one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.
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Facts Long Stories
Yet she was beginning to think that she– along with others– had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.
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Desire Letting Pride Saw
Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don’t blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They’re precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?
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Giving Guilt Responsibility Up
imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.
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People Real Substance
What? Is that boy crazy?” “Most young men his age are somewhat crazy, I think,” Sazed said with a smile. “However, this is hardly unexpected. Haven’t you noticed how he stares at you when you enter a room?” “I thought he was just creepy.
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Boys Crazy Hardly Notice Thinking
Though most expect young men to be fools, I’ve noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.
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Age Children Men
A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
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Ideas Leadership Men

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