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Take what you want, and pay for it.

Robert Jordan

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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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A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked. What weight? Rand replied. That lost hand you've been carrying. Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.
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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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Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
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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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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.
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When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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Always plan for the worst, child that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.
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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
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A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
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You must surrender before you can guide.
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Time to toss the dice
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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
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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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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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