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"If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land."
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"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."

"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."

"Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations."

"Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes."

"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."

"Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."

"Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk."
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"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."


"Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope."


"I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run."


"Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble."


"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."


"But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."


"Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm."


"I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be."
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