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"But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything."
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"Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning."

"The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people."

"Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead."

"Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one."

"If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power of the storm, you sink!"

"Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!"

"Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive."

"He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung."
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"A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy."

"You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast."

"But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea."

"Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter."

"It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong."

"When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better."

"It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already.That's right--you heard me: dead again already.I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?"

"Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I'm a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers"all that sort of thing."
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