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I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don’t shove where a pat would be sufficient.
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Giving Pushing Strength Wall
People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can’t do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.
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Instance Lessons Sometimes Thinking Years
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
imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.
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People Real Substance
There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location.
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Cities People Rocks
I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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People Protect Themselves
A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
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Defined Flaws Men
Eternity ended ten years ago.
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Eternity Mundane Years
To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.
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Age Body Suffering
The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.
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Authority History Shoved Worst
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
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Metal Steel Writing
You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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Ending Finish Learn
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy’s face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.
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Ago Boys Expectations Long
War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.
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Least Nice War Worse
Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.
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Ground Heaps Movement Twist
My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
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Goal Happens Want

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