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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

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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
Books
Knowledge
Keep
Book
Hard
Endured
Served
Safe

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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
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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.
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Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. I like her, Lord Rahl. You may keep her.
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Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.
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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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Those who have come here to hate should leave now for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
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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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There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.
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Richard thought a moment. I don't know, but we have to get across the pass. We're too tired to have to spend tonight fighting shadows again. We must get to the Midlands before dark. And this time, I promise I won't let go of your hand. Kahlan smiled and squeezed his hand. I won't let go of yours either.
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You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself
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It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
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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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Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.
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