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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
Endured
Served
Safe
Books
Knowledge
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Hard

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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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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
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People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.
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We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
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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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Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.
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Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned
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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'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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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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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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Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
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Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight
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The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.
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If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.
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Only a fool walks into the future backwards.
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
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