"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones."

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Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

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"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to."

Frustration

"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"

Curiosity

"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."

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"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."

Competition

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

Adaptation

"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."

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"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."

Acceptance

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

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Wit

"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."

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