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Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

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
Merely
Whim
Faith
Embracing
Reason
Denying
Way
Favor
Favors
Fancy
Celebrate
Strikes
Celebrating

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