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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.

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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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You must surrender before you can guide.
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Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.
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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon
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On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
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Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
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The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
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Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
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There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
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I had long wondered, Lan said to Tam. About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know. Lan raised his own sword in salute.
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
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Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
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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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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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Should and would build no bridges.
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