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"Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done."
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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."

"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."

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
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"Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours."

"Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist."

"He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be."

"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."

"If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains."

"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."

"You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling."

"Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar?Sometimes I think that I am. The beggar knows much that the king can only guess. And yet who draws up the codes for begging ordinances? Often I wonder what my experience in life--my easy life following the Desolation, and my current level of comfort--has given me of any true experience to use in making laws. If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and the cushioning of thrones."
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