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

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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.
Wot
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Nobody
Men

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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
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No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand
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Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.
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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.
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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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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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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.
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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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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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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---
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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've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)
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The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
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You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease. -General Galgan to Mat
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Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
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I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.
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Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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