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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

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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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May
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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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Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
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Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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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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If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
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You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
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Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.
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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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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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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
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The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
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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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