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“…It was easy to think. Hard to accept.”

“…the entire world had somehow become more right for having gone wrong.”

“…Strength does not make one capable of role; it makes one capable of service.”

“…Strength does not make one capable of role; it makes one capable of service.”

“Thus the only way for good to increase in the cosmere is for men to create it…”

650-667 epic Shallan/Jasnah chapter.

“They lived high atop a place no man could reach, but all could visit. The tower city itself, crafted by the hand of no man.”

“…isn’t it difficult, having nothing in which to believe?…. I wouldn’t say I save nothing to believe in, Your Majesty. Actually, I have much to believe in. My brother and my uncle, my own abilities. The things I was taught by my parents.”

501-530: Great Dalinar chapter 🫶🏻

“People are discord…You all act differently. Nothing else is like that —animals act alike, and spren are, in a sense, virtually the same individual. There’s harmony in that. But not in you —it seems that no two of you can agree in anything. All the world does as it is supposed to, except got humans. Maybe that’s why you so often want to kill each other.”

“Sometimes…the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”

“…Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.”

“Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.”

“Ignorance is hardly unusual…The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”

“Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman—not an artist.”

“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”

I’m asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. & it’s this: to be part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language&customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one’s hands—using all one’s senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure(though oral sex has to be a close second)

“One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier…including one’s own ignorance.”

“It is said one can always tell an aristocrat: he reveals only those of his vices which will make him popular.”

“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.”

“They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“They’re training to believe, not to know.”

“…he contained the ingredients of history, ideal and idealized.”

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.”

“Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing.”

“Life improves the closed system’s capacity to sustain life.”

“But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And puts a new shape on hate.”

“They’d never known anything but victory which…could be a weakness in itself.”

“He who can destroy a thing has real control of it.”

“…removal of all limitations meant the removal of all points of reference.”