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"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."
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"Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can."
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"Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it."
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"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"
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"Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?"
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"New York is a sucked orange."
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"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."
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"Time is a waste of money."
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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
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"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."
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"You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It's really funny."
Humor
"That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end."
Hope
"Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to."
Courage
"I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it."
Freedom
"Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.'Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful."
Power
"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."
Competition
"Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation."
Survival
"The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics?"
Strategy
"Marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive."
Humor
"The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?"
Strength
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