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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

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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.
Often
Caution
Forgotten

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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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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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I grew up around strong women weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
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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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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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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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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon
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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
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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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Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
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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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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
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If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
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When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
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I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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