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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.

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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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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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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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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
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The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
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