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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.

Terry Goodkind

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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
Way
Arguing
Think
Dinner
Thinking
Merely
Owls
Like
Ways
Owl
Wrong
Unwilling
Lives
Mice
Right
Argue
Trying
Defend

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