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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.

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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
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Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
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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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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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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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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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Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
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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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To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
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Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.
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Think of the solution, not the problem
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You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself
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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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It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
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Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned
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...You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.
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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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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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Wizard's Fourth Rule There is magic in sincere forgiveness in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.
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