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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Novelist
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Montana
United States
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Master
Masters
Worth
Choices
Away
Take
Enough
Serving
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