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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

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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.
Soothe
Please
Everyone
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It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
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There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
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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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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
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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.
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Should and would build no bridges.
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It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked. What weight? Rand replied. That lost hand you've been carrying. Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.
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You must surrender before you can guide.
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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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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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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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