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"Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed."
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"You need to break a problem into pieces and do what is scheduled for each time slot."

"A hunter who is going to shoot an antelope does not waste his bullets on the dog."

"It is necessary to find ways of solving problem at the expense of available resources."

"You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?"

"Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules."
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"Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great."

"A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect."

"Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world."

"You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them."

"There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave."

"When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him loose them all."

"People always want to know things . . . until they hear them, and then it's too late. Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It's not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath."

"There's a problem with continually stamping down on the least sensible instincts that drive men to recklessly endanger themselves. Even the most reasonable and level-headed of us have only limited space to store such unwanted emotion. You keep putting the stuff away, shoving it to the back of your mind but like an over-full cupboard there comes a point where you try to cram one more thing into it and all of a sudden something snaps, the catch gives, the door bursts open and everything inside spills out on top of you."
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