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Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

Brandon Sanderson

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
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Belief Strong
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
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
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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Delusion Kind Self
People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.
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Friends People Stories Young
You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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Ending Finish Learn
The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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Make Men Motivation Sense
How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn’t occur in the present day?
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Carefully Occur Present Day
What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly…timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.
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Confused Innovation Unfortunate
I don’t have much time for stories,” Vin said. “Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days.” A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. “It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It’s not a very nice place these days.
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Nice People Real
Think of the possibilities–if the ash were red, the rivers would run like blood. Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red–you’d always be thinking, ‘Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.
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About Look Monotonous Possiblities River Think
By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight’s magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?”)
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Mushroom Perios Requuires
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.
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Book Moving Want
Kelsier smiled. ‘It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.’
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Empire Mean Play Powerful
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
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Important Mean Victory
imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.
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People Real Substance

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