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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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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.
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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 have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.
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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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Take what you want, and pay for it.
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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
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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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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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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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Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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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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You must surrender before you can guide.
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When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
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