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"Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time."
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"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."

"Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness."

"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."

"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."

"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."

"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."

"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life."

"You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day."

"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"

"You have a shot at success if you can discipline yourself to eliminate the limiting thoughts from within and the disempowering words from without."
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"Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do."

"Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place."

"Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat."

"Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say."

"Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help.Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. "This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. "The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory."

"You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-""I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to."

"And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about.""Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?"Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!"
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