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"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"
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"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."
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"It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!"
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"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth."
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"Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around."
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"I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything."
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"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."
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"The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."
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"Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it."
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"Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction."
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"Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you."
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"Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist."
Belief
"He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be."
Leadership
"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
"Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important."
Resilience
"If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains."
Power
"Good men don't become legends," he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."
Virtue
"I ask of you your lives, Elend said, voice echoing, "and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor-your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this."Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!There was a brief pause. us!"
Courage
"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."
Existence
"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."
Intelligence
"Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now."
Perspective
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