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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
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Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
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Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
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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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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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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
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Those who have come here to hate should leave now for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
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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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Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
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Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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