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    Thomas Paine
    “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
    ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
    tags: common-sense
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes."
    "So God uses wicked people as his tools?"
    "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses."
    "So, in the long run, God always wins?"
    "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
    tags: graff, humorous, inspirational, sister-carlotta
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    Orson Scott Card
    “He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. ”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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    D.M. Cornish
    “Providence ever turns bad to the good, if you have eyes to see it.”
    ― D.M. Cornish, Factotum (Monster Blood Tattoo, #3)
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
    tags: relationships, women
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."

    She raised an eyebrow.

    "Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
    tags: fantasy, humor
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: dalinar-kholin
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
    “Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: hoid, humor, luck, wit
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, philosophy, religion
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Dr. Seuss
    “They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: life, time
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    Alain de Botton
    “Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: change, embarrassment, learning, life, time
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    Brent Weeks
    “Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: nihilism, philosophy
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: hoid, insult, wise, wit
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: cats, humor, life
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
    tags: government, ideas, idiots, laws
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    Robert Jordan
    “The wheel weaves as the wheel wills”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set #3
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    Robert Jordan
    “Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: fantasy, wheel-of-time
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    Wallace Stevens
    “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: poetry, truth
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