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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

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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.
Trying
Sun
Understanding
Woman
Better

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Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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You must surrender before you can guide.
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If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
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If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
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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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If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
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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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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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