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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.

Terry Goodkind

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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
Choose
Risk
Willing
Delude
Liberty
Armor
Effort
Protective
Everyone
Chains
People
Requires
Embrace

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...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.
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Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.
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If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.
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To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
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...You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.
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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.
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Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.
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