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i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun. derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.
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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
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From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat
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Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
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Take what you want, and pay for it.
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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
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In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
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If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.
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Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.
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Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne
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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
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