"If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose."
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"Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!"
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"Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident."
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"When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there."
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"Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it."
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"Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads."
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"Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!"
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"What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie."
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"Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess"
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"Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit."
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"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
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"It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid."
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"A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair"
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"As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend."
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"I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full."
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"The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!"
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"Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts."
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"Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything."
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"It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that."
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"No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand"
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