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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
Novelist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
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Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.
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Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.
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That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.
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...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.
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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
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Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
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...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are that was why you liked them in the first place.
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Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
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