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"Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves."

"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."

"There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right."

"To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell."

"The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]."

"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."
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"The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how they make use of what life has shown them."


"To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart."


"Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it."


"We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before."


"Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours."Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?"Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study"Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax."


"Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees."
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