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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain

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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.
Tower
Lion
Towers
Lions
Stands
Black

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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
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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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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
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May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon
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Time to toss the dice
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A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.
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Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
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You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease. -General Galgan to Mat
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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
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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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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.
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Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
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Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
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Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat
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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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