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• Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

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• Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

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• To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

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• I strive for nothing if not consistency.

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• Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.

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• Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

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• The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

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• Everyone is either happy or dead.

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• Pain lost its power when other things became more important.

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• In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

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• A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.

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• You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

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• Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

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• A man is what he has passion about.

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• Can’t be any harder than sitting here and having a staring contest with mortality.

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• Cowardice can imitate heroism if given no where to flee.

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• At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.

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• To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing.

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• Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

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• Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

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Brandon Sanderson (75)

Birth:	19th December, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Brandon Sanderson is an American writer. He is best known for his Mistborn series and his work in finishing Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. In 2010, Sanderson published The Way of Kings, the first book in a ten book series called The Stormlight Archive.

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