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Fate does not seek our consent.

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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
Consent
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Fate
Doe

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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less
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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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Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.
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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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Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.
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There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
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You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime. -Kahlan Amnell
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The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.
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Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
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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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I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
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People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.
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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
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We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward none other is needed nor better.
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Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.
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Only those you trust can betray you ~ Nathan
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