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I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

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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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Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become.- Rand Al'Thor
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Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
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When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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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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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
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You read too much and understand too little.
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The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.
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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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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
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It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
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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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