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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
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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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A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.
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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
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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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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
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The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
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Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
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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 end is near, Moridin said. The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
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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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You must surrender before you can guide.
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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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A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
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Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
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Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
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