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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
Life
Individuality
Rise
Alone
Live

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Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.
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People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.
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The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
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Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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Richard started to walk away. Zedd called his name. He stopped and turned. Just be glad she cares for you as much as she does. If she didn't, she might have touched you. Richard stared back at him a long moment. I'm afraid, in a way, she already has.
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Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.
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Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
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Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.
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Do you hate me because I have magic? Of course not. Do you love me despite my magic? He thought a minute. No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroy
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You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself
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Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.
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People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.
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Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.
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But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.
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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.
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