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Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

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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
Backwards
Fool
Walks
Future

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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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Richard started to walk away. Zedd called his name. He stopped and turned. Just be glad she cares for you as much as she does. If she didn't, she might have touched you. Richard stared back at him a long moment. I'm afraid, in a way, she already has.
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There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.
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We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
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You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself
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The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
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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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Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
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Only those you trust can betray you ~ Nathan
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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.
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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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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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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.
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No amount of telling is worth doing it once.
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Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.
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Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
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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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Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.
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