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…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Brandon Sanderson

I still doubt it will work.” “You’d doubt the sun’s rising if you weren’t proven wrong each day,” Raoden said with a smile.
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Day Doubt Each Rising
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
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Ignorance Stupidity Unknowing
True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.
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Boldness Imitation Technique
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
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Children Dead Feelings
Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.
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Happens Matter Mean
I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.
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Betrayal Hurt Pain
One can have a wit, but not a witless
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People Wit Witness
I’ve seen Steelheart bleed
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Bleed Seen Steelheart
Sing!” Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right.”Sing!” If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself… I thought, cringing.
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Song Thinking Voice
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
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Existence Trying Use
I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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People Protect Themselves
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
Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.
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Fate People Reading Relaxing Tea
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
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Darkness Dull Evil
You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends – when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
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Kids Mean School
Every man is a hero of his own story.
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Hero Men Stories

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