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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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Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.
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Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young. - Cara
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Fate does not seek our consent.
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Richard thought a moment. I don't know, but we have to get across the pass. We're too tired to have to spend tonight fighting shadows again. We must get to the Midlands before dark. And this time, I promise I won't let go of your hand. Kahlan smiled and squeezed his hand. I won't let go of yours either.
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Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.
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You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself
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Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
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Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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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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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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Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.
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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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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
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Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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No amount of telling is worth doing it once.
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Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.
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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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