Top 60 F.C. Yee Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience.”

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2. “You can have your past, or you can have your future. Not both.”

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3. “Let a problem least for too long and people begin to believe it’s not a problem.”

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5. “The Avatar can be reborn. But you can’t, Kyoshi. I don’t want to give you up to the next generation. I couldn’t bear to lose you.”

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6. “The Monkey King managed to outsmart or defeat most of these adversaries, but what came afterward was rather galling. If the demon at hand wasn’t killed and sent back to Hell immediately, it was often revealed to be an animal spirit from Heaven who had gained magic powers and used them to terrorize people on Earth. After Sun Wukong’s victory, a Chinese god would show up and be like, “Sorry, bruh, that ogre was actually my goldfish. I’ll take him back now.”

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7. “She didn’t have the right to lose herself in her rage and let it take her to oblivion. No matter what she’d been through. She wouldn’t allow herself to become a human scar, a compendium of personal loss. She had the obligation to be more than the sum of her grievances with the world.”

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8. “Enemies are enemies, but no one can shame you like your own family.”

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9. “People shouldn’t have everything they want. No one is entitled to their every desire. To live in balance, we must willingly decide not to take all that we can from the world, and from others.”

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10. “It wasn’t the reaction Rangi was looking for, but Kyoshi swelled with a sudden happiness. She couldn’t help it. Rangi acting so completely, utterly normal tugged on a rope connected directly to her heart. It always would.”

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11. “You either accept the risk of winning, or the guarantee of losing.”

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12. “Water was calmness and tranquility, but it was the rage of a storm as well.”

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13. “Some people in my country like to believe Avatar Yangchen watches over them. But you, Fire Lord. I can assure you that Avatar Kyoshi watches over you.”

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14. “Healing was better than destruction.”

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15. “They look at themselves like forces of nature, as inevitable ends, but they’re not. Their depth is as false as the shoals at low tide. They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience.”

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16. “My friend is not a diplomat. She is the failure of diplomacy. She is the breakdown of negotiations. There is no escalation of hostilities beyond her.”

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17. “She had the obligation to be more than the sum of her grievances with the world.”

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18. “The true problem with the world lies deep inside humanity itself, and despite your best efforts it will never be fixed. Mankind is a poor investment. A barren field. The less you do for it, the better.”

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19. “They’re all the same, Kyoshi thought. Every single one. Whether they clothe themselves in business or brotherhood or a higher calling only they can see, it doesn’t matter. They’re one and the same. They look at themselves like forces of nature, as inevitable ends, but they’re not. Their depth is as false as the shoals at low tide. They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience. They’re humans like us, made of skin and guts and pain. They need to be reminded of that fact.”

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20. “All this fretting about the spirits. I’m trying to teach you about the mind. An infinite world that’s been neglected by far too many explorers.”

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21. “Where you go, I go. Besides, there’s only one bison, rocks-for-brains.”

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22. “It was said that each Avatar was born in fitting times, to an era that needed them. Judging by its start, the era of Kyoshi would be marred by uncertainty, fear, and death, the only gifts she seemed capable of producing for the world. The people would never revere her like they did Yangchen or smile at her like they did Kuruk. Then let it be so, she thought. She would fight her ill fortune, her bad stars, and protect those who might despise her to the very end of her days.”

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23. “Weakness is practiced and learned as much as strength is!”

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24. “This is what you must forgo, Kyoshi, the easy answers. You must give up your desire for someone to tell you your choices were correct in the end.”

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25. “With their eyes on each other, it was easy to be brave. Maybe that’s the only way we get through this, Kyoshi thought. Just never look away.”

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26. “Lek swung his legs off the chair, unable to stay in the same position lest the memory catch up to him. “The funny thing is, Date Grove doesn’t exist anymore. It was running out of water, on its last legs while I was there. It’s been swallowed by the desert. The people of the town killed my brother to uphold the law, and it meant nothing in the end. If the law was there to protect the village, and the village didn’t survive, then what did they gain?”

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27. “No fire is ever the same fire. No Avatar is ever the same person. You and the flame change with every moment, every generation. You are one flame, and you are many.”

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28. “There is a direct chain of events between excessive desires in the present and widespread pain in the future.”

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29. “Rebuilding always took longer than destruction, cleaning a mess more time than making it.”

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30. “The instant the facts disagreed with their preconceived notions, people lost their minds.”

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31. “It’s amazing what the mind can be led to believe,” Lao Ge said.”

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32. “What you do when no one is guiding you determines who you are.”

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33. “What we do without guidance defines who we are!”

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34. “Spiritual power isn’t just or merciful. It’s fair. That’s what makes it so dangerous.”

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35. “Human beings could drape themselves in titles and etiquette, but at their hearts they were all the same animal.”

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36. “No one had warned her how empty it would feel to have a singular goal and see it achieved.”

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37. “Preparedness carries the day.”

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38. “This was our version of fighting. We were incapable of getting truly angry with each other, so instead we tore our hearts out and handed them over on silver platters.”

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39. “The sheer amount of effort I was putting into these essays had to add up to something. It would be a violation of thermodynamics if it didn’t.”

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40. “You will never be perfectly fair, and you will never be truly correct,” Lao Ge said. “This is your burden.”

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41. “What he really needed was a weapon. A big, threatening, FU kind of weapon that would show everyone the Monkey King meant business.”

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42. “I believe I have to make peace with my own choices, just like everyone else.”

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43. “One of the first lessons a player learns is never to interrupt your opponent when she’s in the middle of making a fatal mistake.”

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44. “She wouldn’t allow herself to become a human scar, a compendium of personal loss. She had the obligation to be more than the sum of her grievances with the world.”

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45. “You wigged out because he wanted to have an arranged marriage right there in class? I thought FOBs were into that kind of thing.”

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46. “If honor was the reason quoted for bloodshed, conflict could be avoided by stripping it away entirely.”

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47. “It took so long for the threads of mistakes and monstrous deeds to stop weaving into the future, to just tie themselves off and end. Maybe they never ended.”

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48. “People can always say I don’t look impressive enough, but they can’t argue over how strong I am once I punch them in the face.”

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49. “I was about as spiritual as a Chicken McNugget.”

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50. “White symbolizes treachery, a sinister nature, suspicion of others, and the willingness to visit evil deeds upon them. But red symbolizes honor. Loyalty. Heroism. This is the face that we show our sworn brothers and sisters. The red is the trust that we have for each other, buried in the field of white but always showing through in our gaze.”

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