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We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

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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
Philosophical
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Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned
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Fate does not seek our consent.
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Cara waggled a hand over the two of them. It works better with your clothes off. Richard frowned. His voice came as a hoarse croak. What? She seemed mystified by the question. I believe you will find such things work better without clothes. She put her hands to her hips. I thought you would know at least that much.
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Do you hate me because I have magic? Of course not. Do you love me despite my magic? He thought a minute. No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroy
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Think of the solution, not the problem
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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.
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The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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Only those you trust can betray you ~ Nathan
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The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
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They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.
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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are that was why you liked them in the first place.
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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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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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Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.
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Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.
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