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...life Is In Fate's Hands Now. You Made Your Choice To Stay... It's Too Late To Change That, So Stop Agonizing Over It.... You're Making My Scales Itch. Saphira, From "eragon

Fight If You Wish. Deny What Is Before You If It Comforts You. But Nothing You Do Can Change Your Fate.

Always It Is Thus With My New Students, And Especially With The Human Ones; The Mind Is The Last Muscle They Train Or Use, And The One That They Regard The Least. Ask Them About Swordplay And They Can List Every Blow From A Duel A Month Old, But Ask Them To Solve A Problem Or Make A Coherent Statement And... Well, I Would Be Lucky To Get More Than A Blank Stare In Return.

Magic Is The Art Of Thinking, Not Strength Or Language.

Only Men Would Think Of Cutting Themselves To Determine Who The Packleader Is. Idiots.