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"He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that."
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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."
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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."
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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."
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"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
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"I guess the all and all answer in life is what Facades you want to believe in the most."
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"How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."
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"Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU."
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"The person you became with her is worth being."
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"He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity " as though it were another mask."
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"You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening."
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"A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight."
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"Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that."
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"No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light."
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"What you practice too often, you use without thinking."
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"Small hopes can grow surprising fruit."
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"The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers."
Identity


"Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive."
Survival


"It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid."
Perception


"Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?"
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"And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve."
Leadership
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