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Too little payment for a crime, too much for an accident. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Don't underestimate the viciousness of academics when funding is at stake. View quote
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While not reliable enough to be put in charge of anything more complicated than a dishwasher, they were very easy to convince that all their troubles were someone else's fault. View quote
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There's nothing like the threat of imminent death to force one to delegate. View quote
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There were security angles, political angles, personal angles-how many angles could dance on the head of a pin? View quote
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live. View quote
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God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in. View quote
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Women shouldn't be in combat, said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. Neither should men, in my opinion. View quote
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Why shouldn't a madman dream of being sane? View quote
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I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS. View quote
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Rule 1: Only overrule the tactical computer if you know something it doesn't. Rule 2: The tac comp always knows more than you do. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously. View quote
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Is this guy for real?" "He thinks he's faking it, but he's not. View quote
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I am not her to vent my feelings. I am here to achieve my goals. View quote
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So much for that line of reasoning, Lord Richars," Ekaterin finished. She sat back with a hand-dusting gesture, and added, by no means under her breath, "Twit'.' View quote
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I'd have worn them as a courtesy to your friend, I'll wear them now as a defiance to our enemies. View quote
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Old age," she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough. View quote
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Such a perilous concentration of demons would create chaos all around it." "War gathers on these borders," said Ista. "A greater concentration of chaos I can hardly imagine. View quote
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Her eyes were full of new; it made them brighter. View quote
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I don't take information and experience into my mind in that organized a fashion, but when I want to bring it out, somehow it's there. You write what you know because - like there's another choice? The trick is to try and know as much as possible. View quote
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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously. View quote
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When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. View quote
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. View quote
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They weren't supermen, or immune to pain. They sweated in confusion and darkness. And ... they won. View quote
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