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Progress is learning to control your world.

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Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

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The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.

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Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have me...more

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Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I percei...more

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I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and abs...more

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The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how the...more

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We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's abo...more

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Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been bo...more

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If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

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Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very t...more

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You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’l...more

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I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in the wrong plac

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Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I trie...more

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The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?