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“A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“In Federalist 51, Madison explained the essential balance between the civil society and governmental restraint: “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections of human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”7”
― Mark R. Levin, Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future

“Sometimes you’ve gotta stand up for yourself, even when you know you ain’t got a chance.”
― Sara King, Forging Zero

“This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or her portion of unhappiness and wakeful nights.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“EPIC NAPPING! A NAP THAT WILL BE IMMORTALIZED FOR ALL TIME! A NAP FIT FOR THE KINGS OF ALL BEASTS!”
― Dixie Lyle, To Die Fur

“The better someone is at their profession, the less time they have to spend on their own life;”
― Dixie Lyle, To Die Fur

“No one had to order an American to save the oppressed. It’s part of their nature to see others live free, even at the sacrifice of their own lives.”
― Richard Fox, The Ember War

“Courage isn’t the absence of fear—it’s the strength to keep going when you are scared.”
― Richard Fox, The Ember War

“Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don’t continue in it after failure?” Vin”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.” Sazed”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“Love must be allowed to flow both ways—if it is not, then it is not truly love, I think. It is something else. Infatuation, perhaps? Either way, there are some of us who are far too quick to make martyrs of ourselves. We stand at the side, watching, thinking that we do the right thing by inaction. We fear pain—our own, or that of another.” He”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to. As,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.” The”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“Gotta grow up sometime, right? I’ve found that … well, a man wantin’ something don’t make it true, you know?” Ranette”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

“A man doesn’t have to like his duty. He just has to do it.” She”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

“But I still feel that I was basically luggage for most of the trip.” He shrugged. “Steris, I think we’re all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we’re just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. We may not be able to choose what happens to us, or where we’ll stop, but we point ourselves in a direction.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

“It may seem heretical to link the three great progressive champions of the twentieth century—Wilson, FDR, and Johnson—with racism. But the indisputable fact is that all three were either racist themselves or made their peace with racism. Progressive historiography has had to work overtime to conceal the actual facts. There”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.” The”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“He was afraid of stepping up, of becoming everything he could be—not because the powers themselves frightened him. But because if he tried, then the failure was far, far worse. At”
― Brandon Sanderson, Calamity

“If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“I realized that what I had feared most—expulsion and derision—didn’t really even hurt, not when you are standing up for what you believe.”
― Andrew Breitbart, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.’ He”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by man or his institutions.”
― Mark R. Levin, Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism

“Locke said, as have others, that natural law is forever and enduring, and man-made law, which may vary from place to place and time to time, clearly is not. That which is just and virtuous is just and virtuous regardless of the passage of laws or time.”
― Mark R. Levin, Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism