Xavier De Becker

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Xavier’s Quotes

“Failed ideas lead to successful ones, Contemplation. They’re the only thing that does.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

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“As a kid, I’d have said that courage destroys fear. Now, I’d have said that fear is what lets us be able to be courageous.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Defiant

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“She only got two kinds of looks: appraising, and skeptical. Those who saw her as a woman, and those who saw her as a girl. Both looks made her feel like a sack of grain being weighed, but she hated the latter more, that way it was meant to make her feel small. The fact, sometimes, it did.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

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“Empathy for an enemy's pain was good, but you couldn't let that lead you into the fallacy of accepting their actions.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Defiant

tags: war

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“Even in science," Contemplation said, "faith plays a role. Each experiment done, each step on the path of knowledge, is achieved by striking out into the darkness. You can't know what you will find, or that you will find anything at all. It is faith that drives us - faith in answers that must exist.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

tags: faith, knowledge, research, science

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