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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.

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

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  2. A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known. – Brandon Sanderson
  3. If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains. – Brandon Sanderson
  4. That’s what trust is. It’s about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you. – Brandon Sanderson
  5. 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? – Brandon Sanderson
  6. Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy. – Marilyn Johnson
  7. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  8. That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We’ll win in the end. – Brandon Sanderson
  9. Study in direction of your field and find maximum amount of information about it , read all possible information concerning it – Sunday Adelaja
  10. If you can read the book and say, -˜Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.- (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) – Brandon Sanderson
  11. Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important. – Brandon Sanderson
  12. Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception – Brandon Sanderson
  13. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  14. You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
  15. Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change. – Sharon Weil
  16. We often know information but not the epistemology of that information. – Debasish Mridha
  17. It’s important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available. – Anne Elizabeth Moore
  18. The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
  19. When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. – Ursula K Le Guin
  20. You do not keep the audience’s interest by giving it information, but by withholding information …. – Robert McKee
  21. In this time of ‘information overload’, people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to. – Maarten Schfer
  22. Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. – Bruce Coville
  23. Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them. – Brandon Sanderson
  24. For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream. – Brandon Sanderson
  25. They say they give their women more freedom, but there’s still the impression that the freedom was theirs to ‘give’ in the first place. – Brandon Sanderson
  26. It’s beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments. – Brandon Sanderson
  27. To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way. – Brandon Sanderson
  28. Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself. – Brandon Sanderson
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  30. Err on the side of awesome. – Brandon Sanderson
  31. Never go on a date unarmed.- Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are. – Brandon Sanderson
  32. You trusted me enough to jump off the wall, and I caught you. – Brandon Sanderson
  33. She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone – Brandon Sanderson
  34. Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
  35. Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. – Brandon Sanderson
  36. The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!--œThe only honest things I can say to you are insults. – Brandon Sanderson
  37. I froze, shocked. (And don’t try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.) – Brandon Sanderson
  38. You don’t really get to choose. We worship you, and that makes you our God. – Brandon Sanderson
  39. A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then. – Brandon Sanderson
  40. Progress is learning to control your world. – Brandon Sanderson

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