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Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

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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
Anarchy
Tolerance
Understanding
Wrong
Must
Proliferate
Robes
Punished
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I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.
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