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Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

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
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Wot
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Nobody
Men

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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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Take what you want, and pay for it.
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Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
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My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
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Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.
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Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
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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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i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun. derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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