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It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

Robert Jordan

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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.
Trip
Fool
Easier
Knock

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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
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When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
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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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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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Better to face the bear than run from it.
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We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
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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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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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It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
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May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon
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You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.
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Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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Time to toss the dice
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