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Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler -- Terry Goodkind
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He had created a solution where it had never before existed, or even been imagined. -- Terry Goodkind
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You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed. -- Terry Goodkind
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The chicken thing let out a whispering cackle. -- Terry Goodkind
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Books were links that spanned such missing human bonds or even times of savagery and its resulting ages of ignorance. -- Terry Goodkind
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Sometimes that's all life is ... One desperate act after another. -- Terry Goodkind
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To love another, you must first love yourself. Love yourself, Magda, so you can love him. Love yourself enough to let your memories of me ease away from closing your heart. Love yourself enough to know that you deserve happiness. - Barracus -- Terry Goodkind
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If our love's tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity? -- Terry Goodkind
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You envisioned the idea of a Confessor for the right reasons. Life is truth. Truth is Life. You wanted a way to seek truth. Such a cause, in the promotion of life, is noble. -- Terry Goodkind
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But who I was, who you loved, no longer exists. I have passed on. In your world, only my memory can exist. Your loyalty to me because of that memory is a part of life, but it can become disloyalty to yourself if you hold it so closely that it crowds out the rest of life. -- Terry Goodkind
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It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew. -- Terry Goodkind
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The greatest harm can result from the best intentions - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander -- Terry Goodkind
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I love her too much to keep her from leaving, -- Terry Goodkind
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Your life is your own. Rise up and live it. -- Terry Goodkind
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Duty?" Kahlan wiped a hand across her face. "Harold, you can't blindly follow that woman's whim. The route to life and liberty exists only through reason. She may be queen, but reason can be your only true sovereign. To fail to use reason in this, to fail to think, is intellectual anarchy. -- Terry Goodkind
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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan -- Terry Goodkind
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Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery. -- Terry Goodkind
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You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life. -- Terry Goodkind
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Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love. -- Terry Goodkind
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If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs ... Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself. -- Terry Goodkind
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Dalton tugged at his clothes, straightening them. "Is that so." "But the female will cheat on the male. Sometimes, while he is out collecting twigs for their nest, she will let another male take her. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability. -- Terry Goodkind
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Back to sleep, my babies," she said in a soothing voice. "Pa just went to the privy. I'm only taking him a light to see his way back. You know how your pa stumbles his toes in the night and then curses us for it. Back to sleep, the both of you. Everything is all right. Just takin' your pa a lamp. -- Terry Goodkind
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Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic. -- Terry Goodkind
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Leadership is a nurturing of those under your command. -- Terry Goodkind
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I have my wizard's rock along. Could I interest you?"
Adie's face softened in a shy smile. "I would like that very much." She watched him as she sat back, taking a bite of her apple.
Zedd arched an eyebrow. "Naked? -- Terry Goodkind
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While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it. -- Terry Goodkind
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You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime.
-Kahlan Amnell -- Terry Goodkind
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She's the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I've never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before. -- Terry Goodkind
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Freedom is never easy to keep and can easily be lost. All it takes is willful indifference. -- Terry Goodkind
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People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life. -- Terry Goodkind
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When you hear the word 'tyranny of magic' as we heard from Elder Caldell, you will know that it is the calling card of killers. Don't be fooled by their platitudes that is for the common good. Their real power is to strip us of our abilities so that they may easily conquer and rule us. -- Terry Goodkind
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If I was a nobody you wouldn't be so eager to see me dead. Just like these people you know that I am devoted to the truth. That is why you want to eliminate me. - Magda Searus -- Terry Goodkind
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Back in his head. His entire body began to tremble. The Sister murmured thick words that had no meaning to Dalton. Each, as it oozed forth, seemed to take root in Rowley. The young man's arms flinched when -- Terry Goodkind
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I asked him what the amulet meant to him, what its meaning was. At first, I thought he wasn't going to answer. But then, in a haunting voice, he said that it represented the dance with death. I was horrified by that. He said the dance with death was the way of the War Wizard. -- Terry Goodkind
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The Spiritist is said to be a dangerous woman. -- Terry Goodkind
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Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Eighth Rule
Talga Vassternich.
(Deserve Victory) -- Terry Goodkind
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I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please. -- Terry Goodkind
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There is more to being in love than just jumping into bed, you know. Like just being close, in one another's arms. -- Terry Goodkind
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Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey. -- Terry Goodkind
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Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight -- Terry Goodkind
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A true Seeker, one who can make a difference, must show himself to be a Seeker. The wizard doesn't point to someone and say, 'Here is the Sword of Truth, you will be the Seeker.' He doesn't really have a choice in the matter. -- Terry Goodkind
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Magic intensifies and concentrates passions, strengthening not only joy, but ruinous passions as well, and in this way they may become obsessions, and unbearable unless released. -Joseph Anders -- Terry Goodkind
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Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality, from which sprouted the tendrils of evil. -- Terry Goodkind
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There seemed to be some inner need in many people to believe that the world would end in some cataclysmic event. Usually in the very near future. -- Terry Goodkind
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When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits. -- Terry Goodkind
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If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed. -- Terry Goodkind
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I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.'
'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword! -- Terry Goodkind
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Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour. -- Terry Goodkind
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Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding. -- Terry Goodkind
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I'm sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don't think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth." Richard stared into Samantha's dark eyes. "No, I wouldn't. Only the truth can help us. -- Terry Goodkind
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Kahlan,' he said, trying to make his voice sound reassuring, 'being a friend means you don't have to tell me anything you don't want to, and I'll still be your friend. -- Terry Goodkind
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The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use. -- Terry Goodkind
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Nothing is ever easy. -- Terry Goodkind
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There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know. -- Terry Goodkind
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Her life was hers to live by right. She belonged to no one. -- Terry Goodkind
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The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less -- Terry Goodkind
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He wanted this to show the raw power of volition. The man and woman he carved were his refuge against his despair over his captivity. They embodied freedom of spirit. They embodied reason rising up to triumph. -- Terry Goodkind
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The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider. -- Terry Goodkind
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People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. -- Terry Goodkind
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There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic. -- Terry Goodkind
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Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times. -- Terry Goodkind
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Of course, disinformation," Quinn said. "I can do that. I'll leave out critical events, then I'll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place. -- Terry Goodkind
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Though it hadn't been in his mind, and even though he would not entertain such an offer, he was nevertheless disappointed to find she thought the idea repulsive. -- Terry Goodkind
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I understand, Lord Rahl. Find the wizard Zedd and the sorceress Nicci and get them out so that they can heal you of the death inside you so that you can end prophecy and end the threat to the world of life now that the barrier is down. -- Terry Goodkind
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Your forces will try to use shields, but I can tell you from experience that shields don't work. Shields key off life. They have nothing to latch on to with the dead. -- Terry Goodkind
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It doesn't require an education, Sergeant Beata, to see what's right before your eyes. Use your head." Beata -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves. -- Terry Goodkind
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This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies. -- Terry Goodkind
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It's easier to feel shame if those guilty are centuries dead, especially when such discrediting, by default, confers upon yourself a higher moral standard without having to stand the test in the true environment of the time. -- Terry Goodkind
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We are the ring of steel around Lord Rahl himself... Two thousand strong. We fall to a man before harm gets a glance at Lord Rahl.
-Commander General Trimack -- Terry Goodkind
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You can't reason with a nightmare -- Terry Goodkind
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Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind. -- Terry Goodkind
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Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours. -- Terry Goodkind
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She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think. -- Terry Goodkind
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I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way. -- Terry Goodkind
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If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. -- Terry Goodkind
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Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality ... through faith. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Ninth Rule
A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. -- Terry Goodkind
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Standing there, chisel and mallet in hand, gazing at the statue that was his vision in stone, was a moment when Richard could savor the supreme achievement of having his creation exist exactly as he had originally conceived it. For this singular moment in time, it was complete, and it was his alone. -- Terry Goodkind
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Truth was only a shifting fog to them, to be burned off by the light of their convoluted reasoning. Followers, -- Terry Goodkind
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Right and wrong are not the product of census. -- Terry Goodkind
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Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt. -- Terry Goodkind
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Life could be brutal, but that such brutality did not define life or its purpose, and that the sexes were not rivals, but meant to share together in the work and joys of life. -- Terry Goodkind
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The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking. -- Terry Goodkind
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There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal. -- Terry Goodkind
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I have found that people do not often want to believe the truth. It is of little value to them. -- Terry Goodkind
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Zedd planted his fists on his hips and turned a look on Cara. "Now Mord-Sith have become experts in magic. What next?" "A talking machine," Nicci said. -- Terry Goodkind
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The training of a Mord-Sith takes years - to learn to handle the pain. I guess it's also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak. -- Terry Goodkind
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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 -- Terry Goodkind
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It wasn't that cold
she'd thought to let the embers do for the night
but she felt the sudden need for the comfort of a fire, the assurance of its light. -- Terry Goodkind
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Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. - Richard -- Terry Goodkind
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Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it! -- Terry Goodkind
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After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.' -- Terry Goodkind
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War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death. -- Terry Goodkind
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He remembered Zedd telling him that old age meant that the only thing he really knew was that he would never know it all, much less know enough. -- Terry Goodkind
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I'm going to do the worst possible thing I could do to you and your people - what my grandfather would have done to you. "I'm going to leave you all to suffer the consequences of your own actions. -- Terry Goodkind
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Kahlan sighed impatiently. "Richard, you promised Zedd we would go to Aydindril." "I did. But I didn't promise him when. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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The power of Orden predates the star shift. -- Terry Goodkind
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Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand ... -- Terry Goodkind
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Create a better idea of what the key should be. One that makes more sense to people, so that they believe in the diversion we create. -- Terry Goodkind
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It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man
what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else. -- Terry Goodkind
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. -Kahlan -- Terry Goodkind
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Please meet Magda Searus, the first Confessor. -- Terry Goodkind
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Don't try to fix the past, dear one - it can't be done. -- Terry Goodkind
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Think of the solution, not the problem -- Terry Goodkind
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The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right from wrong, to value all life, is only possible through our ability to reason. Reason is what powers morality. -- Terry Goodkind
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We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated. -- Terry Goodkind
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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane. -- Terry Goodkind
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When the son, a lanky young man, saw Kahlan, he fell instantly and hopelessly in love. Richard understood the feeling; nonetheless, he didn't appreciate it. -- Terry Goodkind
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Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule. -- Terry Goodkind
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The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies. -- Terry Goodkind
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The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play. - Zedd -- Terry Goodkind
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I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act. -- Terry Goodkind
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He knew, though, that there was no such thing as fair in life. Existence had no agenda. Life simply existed. It was up to them to fight for life to be worthwhile and good if that was what they wanted. -- Terry Goodkind
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Information is the coin of war. -- Terry Goodkind
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Blood erupted in great throbbing gouts from a severed artery at the side of his neck. His open windpipe blew clouds of red mist as he struggled to breathe. -- Terry Goodkind
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Desperately, his mind raced as he cried, trying to make time go backward, to do it again differently, to ignore the voices, to keep hold of her hand, to save her. -- Terry Goodkind
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Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not. -- Terry Goodkind
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She shook her head with a sigh. "You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed." She -- Terry Goodkind
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Only those you trust can betray you. -- Terry Goodkind
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In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it. -- Terry Goodkind
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If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course. -- Terry Goodkind
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Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge. -- Terry Goodkind
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Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I'm finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished. -- Terry Goodkind
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If you regain your senses, come see me, I will teach you how. - Cara -- Terry Goodkind
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Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one. -- Terry Goodkind
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Confidence can be a dangerous thing. Fear can keep you safe, sometimes. -- Terry Goodkind
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Take care, Seeker. You have the gift. Use it. Use everything you have to fight. Don't give in. Don't let him rule you. If you are to die, die fighting with everything you have, everything you know. That is the way of a dragon. -- Terry Goodkind
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Hatred has such powerful emotions attached to it that others take it up out of fear. In that way, hate spreads like panic in a crowd. -- Terry Goodkind
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Not all choices in life are ones you would like, but those are all that are presented to you. Sometimes you must choose what is better for the ones you love than yourself. -- Terry Goodkind
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We all make mistakes.
The people who love us forgive the mistakes.
The people who won't forgive don't really matter -- Terry Goodkind
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Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like. -- Terry Goodkind
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It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry in your heart. -- Terry Goodkind
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Nicci hugged her back. "You do know, don't you, that I also love you? -- Terry Goodkind
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Have you heard the old adage advising to always grow oleanders at your back door? Nicci asked. -- Terry Goodkind
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This was life as it should be lived - proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man. -- Terry Goodkind
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Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise. -- Terry Goodkind
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Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can't stand by and watch. I have to act. -- Terry Goodkind
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Franca smiled to herself for a time before she spoke. My heart belongs to someone. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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That's a maker," Isidore said. "That's the way they are. Creativity in large and small ways defines their nature in everything they do. -- Terry Goodkind
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Richard's mind was filled with the flow and form of the dance with death, the way of a war wizard. He was lost in that dance he had come to know so well. -- Terry Goodkind
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After last night, he felt that the first part, his fantasy of being with her, was just am empty wish. -- Terry Goodkind
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Save your anger for the enemy. Here it will do you no good; there, it can overcome fear. Use this time now to teach your sword what to do, so later it will do it without conscious thought. -- Terry Goodkind
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This is the Sword of Truth. -- Terry Goodkind
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Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul -- Terry Goodkind
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Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story. -- Terry Goodkind
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No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty. -- Terry Goodkind
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Richard clenched the strip in his fist. It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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The only sovereign we could allow to rule us is reason. -- Terry Goodkind
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We all can be no more, or less, than who we are. -- Terry Goodkind
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Surprise is sometimes the best advantage a warrior can have. -- Terry Goodkind
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She had lived her whole life on shifting quicksand, where reason and the intellect were not to be trusted, where only faith was valid, and blind faith was sacred. She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil. -- Terry Goodkind
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Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. -- Terry Goodkind
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You mean that it's not only what he does that makes him dangerous, but also what he feels justified in doing? -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule
The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time. -- Terry Goodkind
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Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind. -- Terry Goodkind
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People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn't need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive -- Terry Goodkind
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When you're the leader, everything is your fault. -- Terry Goodkind
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Slaves, slaves to anything or anyone, despite how much they abhor it, will often cling to that slavery out of fear the alternative would be insufferable. -- Terry Goodkind
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I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world. -- Terry Goodkind
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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it. -- Terry Goodkind
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One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. -- Terry Goodkind
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Maybe I would like to see beauty again before I die." "Bah. What would you carve? What would you see before you die? What could be worth your life?" "Man's nobility - the most sublime form of beauty. -- Terry Goodkind
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Winter was coming; the -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. -- Terry Goodkind
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The tightly focused battle was an orgy of slaughter. Limbs, heads, and parts of bodies from men and women alike littered the ground. -- Terry Goodkind
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The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time. -- Terry Goodkind
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Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. -- Terry Goodkind
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How do you know who I am?'
Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is. -- Terry Goodkind
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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning. -- Terry Goodkind
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wire-wound hilt greeted his fingers. The sword lay on the ground beside him. -- Terry Goodkind
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Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing. -- Terry Goodkind
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Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away. -- Terry Goodkind
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They don't, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don't need to exercise your power. -- Terry Goodkind
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Superstition needs no grounding in truth, but once rooted, it grows a strong though twisted tree. -- Terry Goodkind
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He remembered the subjects well enough to know that finding the answer was a long shot. Still, it was the only shot they had. -- Terry Goodkind
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Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality. -- Terry Goodkind
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His word alone stood between Kahlan and oblivion. -- Terry Goodkind
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It is a mistake to say something cannot be done simply because you don't know how to do it. -- Terry Goodkind
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There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it. -- Terry Goodkind
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Oftentimes it's easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn't always so attractive. -- Terry Goodkind
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He slipped the baldric over his head, laying the leather across his shoulder and the scabbard at his hip. Knowing the weapon a little more intimately, now, he had a new respect for it. -- Terry Goodkind
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After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe. -- Terry Goodkind
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He had sometimes looked into her eyes and whispered to himself how bewitching she was, as if she weren't there hearing him, as if he were all alone looking upon some exceptional specimen rather than his wife. -- Terry Goodkind
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The power needs truth to work. Truth is reality, the laws of nature. They're inseparable. That relationship is represented by the word woven into the hilt. That makes this sword meant to serve more than just the power. It is also meant to serve the truth. This is the Sword of Truth. -- Terry Goodkind
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I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest. -- Terry Goodkind
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As long as we have choices in life and use our heads, there is always the possibility of turning around the worst situation. -- Terry Goodkind
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Faith itself, you see, is the key-the magic wand that they wave over the bubbling brew they have concocted to render it 'self-evident'. -- Terry Goodkind
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The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past. -- Terry Goodkind
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It was a refined sort of bottled fury that had the potential to be devastatingly violent, and yet at the same time he was also a man able to control it. -- Terry Goodkind
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Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts. -- Terry Goodkind
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But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only.' We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. -- Terry Goodkind
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We all have to die, Johnrock - every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance. -- Terry Goodkind
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A single gleaming sword sat in the middle on a raised portion of the red velvet. Magda noticed an ornate gold and silver scabbard attached to a baldric lying on the floor. The scabbard was so striking that it could only belong with the sword. -- Terry Goodkind
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Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more. -- Terry Goodkind
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Magda smiled. I'm familiar with strange objects left in corners. My husband was a maker, though I rarely heard that name applied to him. -- Terry Goodkind
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Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler -- Terry Goodkind
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A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic. -- Terry Goodkind
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It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind. -- Terry Goodkind
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Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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You can't help how you feel and I understand that. Sometimes a person can't talk their heart out of how it feels, despite how hard you try. -- Terry Goodkind
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Like all power, it simply exists. It's the user who determines what use it will be put to. -- Terry Goodkind
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Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl -- Terry Goodkind
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Your life belongs to you alone. Rise up and live it!" ~Richard Rahl -- Terry Goodkind
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Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl? -- Terry Goodkind
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It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage. - Richard -- Terry Goodkind
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Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded. -- Terry Goodkind
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Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either," Naja said, "and that doesn't involve magic. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. -- Terry Goodkind
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We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wishing gets people killed," he often said. "Using your head gets you home. -- Terry Goodkind
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I wish people had half the honor of dragons. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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Passion rules reason, for better or for worse
Wizard's Rule #3 -- Terry Goodkind
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead. -- Terry Goodkind
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Dance with me, Death, I am ready. -- Terry Goodkind
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No army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy. -- Terry Goodkind
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Fate does not seek our consent. -- Terry Goodkind
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Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs. -- Terry Goodkind
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If we timidly submit to tyranny, we will never have the chance to test our wings. -- Terry Goodkind
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Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be. -- Terry Goodkind
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Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie. -- Terry Goodkind
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Richard started to walk away. Zedd called his name. He stopped and turned.
Just be glad she cares for you as much as she does. If she didn't, she might have touched you."
Richard stared back at him a long moment. "I'm afraid, in a way, she already has. -- Terry Goodkind
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This was why he couldn't let Richard know it was the chimes themselves that were loose. Richard would not have accepted what Zedd intended, what Zedd knew he must do. -- Terry Goodkind
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Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd -- Terry Goodkind
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The sweltering darkness and vast weight of the surrounding silence seemed as eternal as death itself. -- Terry Goodkind
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stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill. -- Terry Goodkind
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Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door. -- Terry Goodkind
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Third Time tricked, marks the fool. -- Terry Goodkind
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It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. -- Terry Goodkind
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Death, though, was part of life. There could not be life without death always shadowing it. -- Terry Goodkind
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It didn't matter how hard you could swing a sword, if you couldn't hit anything. -- Terry Goodkind
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Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death. -- Terry Goodkind
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The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid -- Terry Goodkind
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You can't expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse. -- Terry Goodkind
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When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going. -- Terry Goodkind
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She had thought she could make a difference. She had thought she could drive back the advancing horde - by the sheer weight of her will, if need be. It was arrogance on her part. The forces of freedom were lost. -- Terry Goodkind
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Fools who won't see the truth are deadly. -- Terry Goodkind
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Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious. -- Terry Goodkind
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Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength. -- Terry Goodkind
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Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how. -- Terry Goodkind
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To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite. -- Terry Goodkind
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My mother always said that if you predicted rain long enough, sooner or later you would get wet and be proven right. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Third Rule
Passion rules reason, for better or for worse. -- Terry Goodkind
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Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant. -- Terry Goodkind
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Anger made a better warrior than fear. -- Terry Goodkind
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Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong. -- Terry Goodkind
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Anger is a shield for the power of the sword's magic, so that helped. -- Terry Goodkind
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Once you teach me something, it's mine to use. -- Terry Goodkind
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The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true ... or being afraid it is. -- Terry Goodkind
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The entire mass of people before the palace erupted in a deafening roar. And then, as one, they lunged forward. -- Terry Goodkind
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Powerful people who lose power do not feel anguish and heartache like a jilted lover. -- Terry Goodkind
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It's so good to see you," she whispered privately in the midst of the crowd. When she held him, there was no crowd, there was only him. There was always only him in her heart and soul. -- Terry Goodkind
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What are half-people? Living people he has stripped of their souls. -- Terry Goodkind
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You either had to fight evil as you encountered it, or evil would come to control your life. -- Terry Goodkind
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Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters. -- Terry Goodkind
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Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything. -- Terry Goodkind
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Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more. -- Terry Goodkind
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I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way. -- Terry Goodkind
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Really? A Confession flower. Why would it be called that? Because a confession is a revelation of the truth. Truth is pure. White is pure. Thus the name. -- Terry Goodkind
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Surprise was their greatest weapon. He didn't want to give it up without a very good reason. -- Terry Goodkind
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Your actions, not your feelings, speak the truth of your intent." Richard -- Terry Goodkind
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And that you are equally faithful to her. -- Terry Goodkind
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History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it. -- Terry Goodkind
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I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years. -- Terry Goodkind
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Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. -- Terry Goodkind
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I want you to use me to create a Confessor. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Fourth Rule
There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive. -- Terry Goodkind
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I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine. -- Terry Goodkind
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Richard didn't trust Minister Chanboor. The man's tongue was too smooth. Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did. -- Terry Goodkind
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As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life. -- Terry Goodkind
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Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned -- Terry Goodkind
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The truth has value. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that. -- Terry Goodkind
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What is commonly thought luck is often merely the result of incessant practice. -- Terry Goodkind
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Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves ... and has lost. -- Terry Goodkind
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Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp. -- Terry Goodkind
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That is what we believe in and what we are fighting for. The right to the joy of life. The right to our own life. The right to love. -- Terry Goodkind
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No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution. -- Terry Goodkind
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You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is. -- Terry Goodkind
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But you know how Richard feels. He thinks it would be wrong - more than that, he thinks it would be irresponsible to give in to such a wish when reason tells him he must not. -- Terry Goodkind
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No one is as fanatical as a convert. -- Terry Goodkind
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Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. -- Terry Goodkind
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I don't know how good I'll be at teaching you. Seems I can't even teach you to call me Father.'
She smiled shyly. 'Chase and Father mean the same thing to me. -- Terry Goodkind
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But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths. -- Terry Goodkind
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Your destiny is to find the truth. -- Terry Goodkind
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Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside. -- Terry Goodkind
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To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own. -- Terry Goodkind
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You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger. -- Terry Goodkind
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It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous! -- Terry Goodkind
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It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way. -- Terry Goodkind
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I will give you war; a real war, not a slaughter of women and children but a war lead by me, the Mother Confessor, a woman! War without quarter! - Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor -- Terry Goodkind
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To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love. -- Terry Goodkind
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We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. -- Terry Goodkind
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Kahlan ambled toward the door. "Well, my breasts aren't as large as yours Berdine." She slowed as she passed Raina. "I think Raina's hands would fit mine better. -- Terry Goodkind
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He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because he was a monster that needed to be collared, a beast. -- Terry Goodkind
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I love you, Kahlan. Never anyone before you, nor ever after. Only you." His eyes said it even better. -- Terry Goodkind
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Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time. -- Terry Goodkind
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Life is the future, not the past. -- Terry Goodkind
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This was the threshold to the place of the dead. -- Terry Goodkind
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Even without the drizzle and approaching darkness, it was a miserable time to be digging up dead people. -- Terry Goodkind
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Master Rahl guide us. Master Rahl teach us. Master Rahl protect us. In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled." She put her heart and soul into the words. "We live only to serve. Our lives are yours. -- Terry Goodkind
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How can you be alive, now, if you were dead?" "Well, death isn't what it used to be. -- Terry Goodkind
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If we are to survive, we need magic now more than ever to defend ourselves from those in the Old World. We need to learn, discover, create. We need to use our reasoning minds and truth. -- Terry Goodkind
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Their conscious, deliberate act of murder takes the irreplaceable value of life from another. A murderer, by his own choice to kill, forfeits the right to his own life. -- Terry Goodkind
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Wizard's Sixth Rule
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. -- Terry Goodkind
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Civilization must always defend itself -- Terry Goodkind
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He wanted to know things, not reveal them. -- Terry Goodkind
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if you went through life expecting gratitude for the help you provided, you might end up leading a miserable life. -- Terry Goodkind
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You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself -- Terry Goodkind
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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be. -- Terry Goodkind
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History is rarely made by reasonable men. -- Terry Goodkind
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Cutting people. Those women were -- Terry Goodkind
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I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier. -- Terry Goodkind
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Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing. -- Terry Goodkind
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No amount of telling is worth doing it once. -- Terry Goodkind
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It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts. -- Terry Goodkind
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Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble. -- Terry Goodkind
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You are not struggling to rule, but to give others a chance at ruling their own lives. So stop ruling and let them live those lives. -- Terry Goodkind
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Moral compromise rejects the concept of right and wrong. It says that everyone is equal, all desires are equally valid, all action is equally valid, so everyone should compromise to get along. -- Terry Goodkind
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Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves. -- Terry Goodkind
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The cannon of the spirits says that intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carryout the intent does not absolve the guilt. ~ Cara Mordsith -- Terry Goodkind
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Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth. -- Terry Goodkind
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It is not a weakness, child, to be a victim. -- Terry Goodkind
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I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me! -- Terry Goodkind
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all that could be hoped for was for each generation to be raised to be sensible enough to learn from the past, not to lose sight of the things that mattered, and to understand why they mattered. -- Terry Goodkind
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I am who I am; no more, no less. -- Terry Goodkind
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Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves. -- Terry Goodkind
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of his past captors. Any warrior would. He -- Terry Goodkind
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Sometimes lunatics are so driven, they can take the whole world into madness with them. -- Terry Goodkind
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The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything. -- Terry Goodkind
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. -- Terry Goodkind
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Your only chance is to let the truth escape. -- Terry Goodkind
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Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast. -- Terry Goodkind
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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. -- Terry Goodkind
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In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live. -- Terry Goodkind
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That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes. -- Terry Goodkind
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Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace -- Terry Goodkind
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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate. -- Terry Goodkind
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They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat. -- Terry Goodkind
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We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is. -- Terry Goodkind
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I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step. -- Terry Goodkind
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Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others. -- Terry Goodkind
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If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift? -- Terry Goodkind
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The dead must heed them. -- Terry Goodkind
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Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. -- Terry Goodkind
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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become. -- Terry Goodkind
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Only when all must bow to the same law is every person free. -- Terry Goodkind
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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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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured. -- Terry Goodkind