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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
Robert Jordan
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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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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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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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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
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It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
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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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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
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i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun. derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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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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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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She’s not for you, nor you for her at least, not in the way you both want.
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From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
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Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
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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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For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
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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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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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