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Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?
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He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.
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A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.
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To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain—leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.
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Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.
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How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? 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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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
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In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
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Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
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I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.
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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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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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[..] overthrowing the Final Empire seems like a good start. Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
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Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
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Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
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Faith isn't about logic, son," Haddek said. "Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot 'disprove' the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.
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If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.
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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world.
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The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.
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I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?
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It's what happens when you shoot someone, Wayne pointed out. At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.
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It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.
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Born:
December 19, 1975
(age 48)
Bio:
Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is best known for his Mistborn series and his work in finishing Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time.
Known for:
The Way of Kings (2010)
Elantris (2005)
Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)
Steelheart (2013)
Words of Radiance (2014)
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