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Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

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Mind, True You, Closed Mind

David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1996). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, Del Rey Books

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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

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Inspirational, Happiness, Loss

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We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

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Adventure, Thinking, Years

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One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

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Betrayal, Hate, Acceptance

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I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

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Years, Laughing, World

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Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

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Believe, Knitting, Soul

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When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

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Sacrifice, Love Is, Involved

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Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

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Adventure, Blood, Race

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As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

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Long, Opinion, Motive

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As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

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Falling In Love, Wit, Bottom

"The Belgariad". Book by David Eddings, 1993.

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When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

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Ignorance, Bliss, Ignorance Is Bliss

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But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

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Possible And Impossible, Ordinary World, Law

David Eddings (2010). “Pawn Of Prophecy: Book One Of The Belgariad”, p.53, Random House

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My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen

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Mother, Dog, Past

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...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

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Light, Darkness, Surrender

David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.36, Random House

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The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar

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Morning, Night, Afternoon

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Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

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Growing Up, Doubt, Grows

David Eddings (2010). “Seeress Of Kell: (Malloreon 5)”, p.39, Random House

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Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

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Powerful, Dark, Night

David Eddings (2010). “Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad”, p.136, Random House

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Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

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Happens, Unimportant

David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

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Lying, Crazy, Real

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We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.

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Stupidity, Littles, Now And Then

"The Seeress of Kell".

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Wise are you, indeed... to know what is not possible.

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Wise, Knows

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Consistency is the defense of a small mind

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Consistency, Mind, Defense

David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.

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War, People, Tables

David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2015). “Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress: 2-Book Collection”, p.90, HarperCollins UK

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The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

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Book, Men, Looks

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When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

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Eye, Reality, Normal

David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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Born: July 7, 1931
Died: June 2, 2009
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