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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

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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.
Battle
Lost
Sadder

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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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You must surrender before you can guide.
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No man should have another man's voice in his head.
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
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Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
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My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne
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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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