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If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Brandon Sanderson

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
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
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Ignorance Stupidity Unknowing
[Omin] …All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise – some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another.
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Blessed Children Hurt
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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Delusion Kind Self
It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.
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Better Imitating Versions
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
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Belief Strong
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
I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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Brain Disease Responsibility
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
That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We’ll win in the end.
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End Matter Winning
Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards…Honestly, Kell, I’d nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. “Foolhardy?” Kelsier asked with a laugh. “that wasn’t foolhardy – that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things
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House Laughing Years
I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.
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Brain Needs Thinking
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
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Holy Lists Noblemen
War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he’s still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.
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Caught Dreamer Violence War
Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man’s opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I’m the one with the armies.
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Arrogant Guess Man Own Perhaps
You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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Ending Finish Learn

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

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