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I Do Not Like Odd Things Until I Can Understand Them.
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I Do Not Like Odd Things Until I Can Understand Them.

Understanding the Quote: "i do not like odd things until i can understand them...."

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Cried
Seats
Men Always Believe They Are In Control Of Everything Around Them. When They Find Out They Are Not, They Think They Have Failed, Instead Of Learning A Simple Truth Women Already Know.
Believe
Simple
Men
The Creator Made Women To Please The Eye, And To Boggle The Mind.
Women
Eye
Mind
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.
Forgiveness
Women
Thinking
There Were Many Good Years. Good Decades, Good Centuries. We Believed We Were Living In Paradise. Perhaps That Was Our Downfall. We Wanted Our Lives To Be Perfect, So We Ignored Imperfections. Problems Were Magnified Through Inattention And War Might Have Become Inevitable If The Bore Hadn't Ever Made.
War
Years
Perfect
Death Comes To Us All; We Can Only Choose How To Face It When It Comes.
Faces
Wheel Of Time
Wot
At My Age, If I Make It Up, It's Still An Old Saying.
Age
Old Saying
Wot
It's Never Over, Al'thor. The Battle's Never Done.
Battle
Done
Als
The Wheel Of Time And The Wheel Of A Man's Life Turn Alike Without Pity Or Mercy.
Time
Men
Wheels
I Think That Quite Often You Can Only Find A Choice Between Bad And Worse. But I Think It's Worth Making The Effort, And I Like To Expose My Characters To That Sort Of Situation.
Character
Thinking
Choices
Life Is A Dream From Which We All Must Wake Before We Can Dream Again.
Inspirational
Positive
Dream
Almost Dead Yesterday, Maybe Dead Tomorrow, But Alive, Gloriously Alive, Today. -- Mat Cauthon
Yesterday
Alive
Today
Courage To Strengthen, Fire To Blind, Music To Daze, Iron To Bind.
Fire
Iron
Daze
A Cat For A Hat, Or A Hat For A Cat. But Nothing For Nothing.
Cat
Hats
In Wars, Boy, Fools Kill Other Fools For Foolish Causes
War
Boys
Fool
Women," Mat Declared As He Rode Pips Down The Dusty, Little-used Road, "are Like Mules." He Frowned. "wait. No. Goats. Women Are Like Goats. Except Every Flaming One Thinks She's A Horse Instead, And A Prize Racing Mare To Boot. Do You Understand Me, Talmanes?" "pure Poetry, Mat," Talmanes Said, Tamping The Tabac Down Into His Pipe.
Horse
Thinking
Waiting
If You Try Putting A Woman On A Horse When She Does Not Want To Go, She May Put A Knife In Your Ribs.
Horse
Knives
Trying
If You Ask The Lion To Protect From From Wolves, You Have Only Chosen To End In One Belly Instead Of Another.
Lions
Ends
Protect
I've Come To Give You Your Gift Back, Mordeth," Cauthon Whispered. "i Consider Our Debt Paid In Full.
Giving
Debt
Paid In Full
Prophecy Is Most Dangerous When You Try To Make It Happen... The Pattern Weaves Itself Around You, But When You Try To Weave It, Even You Cannot Hold It.
Trying
Patterns
Dangerous
Hammer The Iron That Lies On Your Anvil Instead Of Daydreaming About Working Silver.
Lying
Iron
Hammers
Hope Is Like A Piece Of String When You’re Drowning; It Just Isn’t Enough To Get You Out By Itself.
Pieces
Enough
Drowning
A Warder Once Told Me Trollocs Call The Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I Mean To Make Them Give That Name To The Two Rivers.
Mean
Names
Two
Perrin, My Father Says A General Can Take Care Of The Living Or Weep For The Dead, But He Cannot Do Both.
Father
Care
Take Care
You Read Too Much And Understand Too Little.
Littles
Too Much
We Should Ask Our Commanders..." Elayne Trailed Off. "if There Are Any We Trust Not To Be Under Compulsion." "there's Only One," Mat Said Grimly, Meeting Her Eyes. "and He's Telling You We Are Finished If We Continue As We Have. The Earlier Plan Was A Good Enough One, But After What We Lost Today...elayne, We're Dead Unless We Choose One Place To Stand, Gather Together, And Fight." One Last Toss Of The Dice.
Eye
Fighting
Together
Two Days' Hunger Made A Fine Sauce For Anything.
Two
Sauce
Hunger
Dance With Her, And She Will Forgive Much. Dance Well, And She Will Forgive Anything.
Forgiving
Wells
Dovie'andi Se Tovya Sagain!
Well, I Can Admire Stubbornness In A Man. There Is Little To A Man Who's Too Easily Biddable.
Men
Littles
Wheel Of Time
But It Was An Ending.
Even A Queen Stubs Her Toe, But A Wise Woman Watches The Path.
Wise
Queens
Watches
Men," Thom Murmured. "men Who Shook The Pillars Of Heaven And Rocked The World On Its Foundations." He Shook His Head. "it Doesn't Matter. Forget About Them. They Are Dust Now.
Men
Dust
Heaven
I Will Hate The Man You Choose Because He Isn't Me, And Love Him If He Makes You Smile.
Love
Hate
Men
The Empress Will Follow Where You Go," She Said. "so She Will," Mat Said. "as I'll Follow Where She Goes, I Suppose. I Hope That Doesn't Lead Us In Too Many Circles.
Circles
Empresses
Said
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