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We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

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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.
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It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked. What weight? Rand replied. That lost hand you've been carrying. Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.
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Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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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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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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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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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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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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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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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
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If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.
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The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
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