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Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

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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
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Emotions
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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
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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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The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less
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Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.
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Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.
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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
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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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Reason and reality are the only means to just laws mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
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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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Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.
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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
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If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
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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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