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Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

Christopher Paolini

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Christopher Paolini
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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LA
California
Christopher James Paolini
Zealotry
Moderation
Wiser
Policy

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...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from Eragon
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The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.
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Never ask an elf for help they might decide your better off dead, eh? (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)
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I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.
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Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.
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Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.
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He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
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