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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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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
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Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick. Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
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Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
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A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.
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The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
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You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
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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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Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
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I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
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Words are where most change begins.
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There's always another secret.' -Kelsier
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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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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
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Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours. Ranette: Your mansion isn't safe? Wax: My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study Ranette: Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.
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Every action we take has consequences, Vin, Kelsier said. I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.
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Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.
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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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Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.
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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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In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.
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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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