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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
Author
Novelist
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Montana
United States
Masters
Worth
Choices
Away
Take
Enough
Serving
Make
Fears
People
Master

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...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
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When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.
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If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.
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