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"It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways."
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"Adapt yourself to the needs of the people."

"Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along."

"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."

"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."

"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"

"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root."

"If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated."

"The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."

"THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING."
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"I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to."

"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."

"You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you."

"There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient."

"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."

"And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compliment? "Of course I am, Lightsong said. "My dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it? "Of course not, she agreed. "You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic. "I am rather exceptional in that regard."

"Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles. Worldbuilding works best when it draws from sources in our world. Characters work best when they're grounded in solid human emotion and experience."

"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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