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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

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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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Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.
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Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
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