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Plan for the worst, expect the best.

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
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David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
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How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
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The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.
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Blood always aids blood, my friend.
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We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.
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May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?
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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
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Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
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None of us can choose the manner of our passing.
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The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
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Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
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A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.
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If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
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Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.
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Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.
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I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
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In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
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