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Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

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.
Worth
Wants
Trouble
Child
Sometimes
Children
Stopping
Men
Sweet
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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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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
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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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Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
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He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!
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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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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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Better to face the bear than run from it.
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If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
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If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
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You must surrender before you can guide.
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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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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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