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"What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?"
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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
"To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way."
Beauty
"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."
Writing
"Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception."
Perception
"I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know hat I survived."
Survival
"Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception."
Power
"Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it."
Humor
"You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling."
Time
"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."
Acceptance
"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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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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Personal Development
"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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Personal Development
"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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Personal Development
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
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Personal Development
"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."
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Personal Development
"Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs, doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead."
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Personal Development
"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
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Personal Development
"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."
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Personal Development
"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."
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Personal Development
"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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Personal Development
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