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Right or wrong, what I also saw was that you made an enemy, and left him alive behind you. Great charity. Bad tactics. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
You are what you do. View quote
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Biology is Destiny. View quote
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary. View quote
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Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you.... Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice. View quote
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What a strange world you must live in, inside your head. View quote
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A person's things can be a kind of exterior morphology of their mind. View quote
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I've always felt that theists were more ruthless than atheists. View quote
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No fear trembled his voice. Well, she reflected, perhaps he was not old enough yet to have really come to believe in death after life. View quote
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So in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it's time that's absolute. View quote
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I'm sure we'd all rather be clever than brave. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Do you know, I think you'd like politics at least on Barrayar. Maybe because it's so similar to what we call war, elsewhere. View quote
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It's a moribund body anyway, afflicted with the narrowest conservatism and stuffed with old relics only concerned with protecting their privileges. I'm not sure anything can be done with the Counts in the long run. Perhaps they should finally be allowed to dodder over the brink of extinction. View quote
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Anybody ever tell you you're a lunatic? View quote
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Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever. View quote
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I had a teacher who used to reflect back my questions that way. I thought it was the Socratic method, and it impressed me immensely, until I found out he used it whenever he didn't know the answer. View quote
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The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes. View quote
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I suppose my determination to be a soldier stems from that date. I mean the real thing, not the parades and the uniforms and the glamour, but the logistics, the offensive advantage, the speed and surprise-the power. A better-prepared, stronger, tougher, faster, meaner son-of-a-bitch than any who came through that door. View quote
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Save me from that! To pour your life into sons for eighteen or twenty years, and then have the government take them away and waste them cleaning up after some failure of politics-no thanks. View quote
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Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work. View quote
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And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Shooting people was such a stupid activity, why should everybody-anybody!-be so impressed? Silver wondered irritably. You would think she had done something truly great, like discover a new treatment for black stem-rot. View quote
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Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you. View quote
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We make our own luck. And it's my responsibility to see it's good and not bad. View quote
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The trouble with you, Ti, lectured Leo kindly, is that you lack teaching experience. If you had, you'd have faith that the most unlikely people can learn the most amazing things. View quote
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