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Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

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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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...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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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young. - Cara
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Reason and reality are the only means to just laws mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
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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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There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
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Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.
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Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.
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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
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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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There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.
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Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.
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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
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