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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

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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Cliff
Hands
Cliffs
Certain
Stretch
Even
Falling
Men
Worst
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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
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I grew up around strong women weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
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If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
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No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand
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Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
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The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain, Matrim Cauthon whispered. Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
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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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