I have to do this, Merrit. I trust you to take care with my life, but if I lose it in the attempt, then I will have died trying to save all life and I don’t want you to blame yourself. This is worth doing. I’d rather die trying to preserve the value of life than watch it all end because I failed to do what only I can.” – Magda Searus.

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Terry Goodkind Quotes

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.

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Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

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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.

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We have a responsibility to life. The living should be our only concern. Since it is the Sword of Truth – a weapon created to fight for the truth – people won’t have reason to expect that it could also actually be the key to the power of Orden. Quinn, you know how dangerous the power of Orden is. Used in the wrong way. it very well could breach the veil and destroy the world of life. We have to do everything in our power to see to it that such a thing never comes to pass.

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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.

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Don’t make promises, because circumstances have a way of making you regret them.

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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.

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The power of Orden predates the star shift.

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Something in this world always wants to kill you. Don’t forget that.

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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.

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No one is as fanatical as a convert.

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Ah, but Sorceress, on such a journey as ours, is one ever truly done with saving the world?

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The woman had a voice that could unwind a good rope.

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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’.

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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.

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Darken Rahl shook his fists to the sky. “No!

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I hate magic,” Berdine muttered. “It makes no sense.

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The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond for the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already know.

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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.

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Life is about change. Change has both good and bad elements to it. You can either deal with the way things have changed and move forward, or you can let bitterness about what’s lost in the past rob you of your future.

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