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"The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons."
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"Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe."
Power

"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"
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"I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly."
Friendship

"Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense."
Adventure

"People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort."
Humor

"Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?"
Freedom

"To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way."
Beauty

"I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Power

"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."
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"...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become...."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
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"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
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"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
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"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."
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"It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well."
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"Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates."
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"Religion is a distraction from true education."
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"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
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"For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place."
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"It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason."
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