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Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
Author
Novelist
Teacher
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Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
Wisdom
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Sometimes
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Bows
Strength

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Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness
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Liz cleared her throat. Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like....little person, or vertically challenged,or- I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people, Bes grumbled. I'm a dwarf!
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Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death
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Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.
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The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.
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Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!
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Zia, I said, that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have? Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst into flames - a small red fireball so bright, it lit the entire room. I am a scribe in the House of LIfe, Sadie Kane. I am trained to fight gods.
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Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.
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Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon. Brother! Tyson crushed Frank in a hug. Percy stifled a laugh. Actually he's more like a great-great-...Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother. Thanks. Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.
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