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A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

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.
Men
Trusts
Fools
Fool
Everyone
Live
Enough
Long

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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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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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Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
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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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He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!
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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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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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Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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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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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
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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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It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
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