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Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

— Terry Goodkind Confessor (2007)

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Fantasy allows you to shine a different kind of light on human beings. I believe the only valid use of fantasy is to illustrate important human themes.

Interview by John C. Snider (2003)

Democracy is not a synonym for justice or for freedom. Democracy is not a sacred right sanctifying mob rule. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual.

We can only be what we are, nothing more, nothing less.- Kahlan- Wizard's First Rule.

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight. -Adie, Wizard's First Rule*

Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it!- Richard, Faith of the Fallen

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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