Every age, every generation has its built in assumptions, that the world is flat, that the world is round etc. There are hundreds of hidden assumptions, things we take for granted, that may or may not be true. Of-course in the vast majority of cases historically, these things aren__ true. So presumably, if history is any guide, much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn__ true. But we__e locked into these precepts without even knowing it. That__ a paradigm.

If we stop helping people because we__e afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I__l stop them.

Enjoy writers and entertainers but don't substitute their synthesis of truth and reality for your own. Seek your own counsel as much as you can. Dependence on any one or anything else will eventually result in disappointment and this may be, as it always was.

And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compliment?_ __f course I am,_ Lightsong said. __y dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it?_ __f course not,_ she agreed. __ou are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic._ __ am rather exceptional in that regard.

He didn__ recruit me,_ Cett pointed out. __ got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco.___ wish I cared enough to apologize,_ Elend said, staring at them.

Heavens, no," Wax said. "If I approved of half the thngs Wayne does, Harmony would probably strike me on the spot.