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

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Brandon Sanderson

#Doe Quotes #Capable Quotes

“This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.”
“Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.”
“...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.”
“When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.”
“It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.”
“There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand.”
“I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.”
“We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.”

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