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9efb06d
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It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.
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David Weber |
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cf60e8d
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Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?"
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David Weber |
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f8e61f3
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Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.
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David Weber |
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9d8b10a
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WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.
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David Weber |
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282bbbf
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She didn't know a lot about politics - yet - but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.
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David Weber |
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de5d101
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Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both alive. She'd never guessed what she was creating, never imagined the monster she'd spawned. She'd seen the power of Alicia DeVries's mind without recognizing the controls which kept that power in check, and only now had she begun to understand ..
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rage
out-of-control
fury
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David Weber |
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ea4c47e
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On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred."
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David Weber John Ringo |
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0528a0f
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Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?" "Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he got a little miffed. No big deal."
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spat
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David Weber |
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405b413
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On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred." --
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David Weber John Ringo |
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d8e6090
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Cathy smiled back 'Rules were meant to be broken.' 'Don't disagree,' Oversteegen replied immediately. 'Indeed they are. Providin', however, that the one breakin' the rules is willin' t' pay the price for it, and the price gets charged in full. Which you were, Lady Catharine. I saluted you for it then-at the family dinner table that night, in fact. My mother was infinitely more indisposed thereafter; tottered back t' her bed cursin' me for a..
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sacrifice
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David Weber |
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3b06b43
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There are two sides to every dialogue, but if you accept the other side's terms without demanding equal time for your own, then they control the debate and its outcome.
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David Weber |
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352bd32
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This just gets worse and worse," Rob Pierre sighed as he skimmed Leonard Boardman's synopsis of his latest gleanings from the Solarian League reporters covering the PRH. "How can one person--one person, Oscar!--do this much damage? She's like some damned elemental force of nature!" "Harrington?" Oscar Saint-Just quirked an eyebrow and snorted harshly at Pierre's nodded confirmation. "She's just happened to be in the right places--or the wro..
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success
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David Weber |
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Hamish Alexander-Harrington knew his wife as only two humans who had both been adopted by a pair of mated treecats ever could. He'd seen her deal with joy and with sorrow, with happiness and with fury, with fear, and even with despair. Yet in all the years since their very first meeting at Yeltsin's Star, he suddenly realized, he had never actually met the woman the newsies called "the Salamander." It wasn't his fault, a corner of his brain..
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David Weber |
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b878978
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Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts,
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David Weber |
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a44c5f3
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We maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)
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David Weber |
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4cf429f
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There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too.
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David Weber |
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3e1930f
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Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a splendor, a glory, a denial of all restraint but not of reason. It was pure, elemental purpose, unencumbered by compassion or horror o..
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rage
bersek
bloodlust
deadly
frenzy
unrestrained
berserker
savage
rational
restraint
lethal
glory
savagery
purpose
horror
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David Weber |
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1448c0d
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Let's be about it, people.
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David Weber |
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34336fb
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Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places.
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David Weber |
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00560d0
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Nuts didn't need religion to make them nuts, Allison had long since decided, but it did seem to give them a certain added sense of commitment to whatever goals their nutdom decided to embrace.
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David Weber |
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0a9fad4
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The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.
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David Weber |
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881ee6e
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The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.
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David Weber |
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e583e06
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It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.
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David Weber |
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651e422
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Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions,
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David Weber |
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dbcabd6
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Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.
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power-generation
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David Weber |
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18ad278
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There's a reason I've always relied on you for the necessary political miracles, Emily," Hamish told her with a smile. "Give me a fleet problem, or a naval battle to fight, and I "know exactly what to do. But dealing with scum like High Ridge and Descroix--?" He shook his head. "I just can't wrap my mind around how to handle them." "Be honest, dear," Emily corrected him gently. "It's not that you really can't do it, and you know it. It's th..
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David Weber |
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e3bfc8f
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Yet i say to you, do not rush to marriage for it is a deep and perfect thing. Test first, that you may be certain you are called to it by love, and not simply by pleasures of the flesh which will consume themselves and leave only ashes and misery
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David Weber |
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e766ae0
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And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.
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David Weber |
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9d9e1e7
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It's much more comfortable to cling to your bigotry than it is to admit you've been wrong to feel it in the first place,
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David Weber |
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9e3da3f
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Fail not in this charge at your peril.
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David Weber |
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6dfb8eb
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I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir--" Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely "--and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff."
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David Weber |
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bbfe5a2
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All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran -- or Grayson -- Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that .
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David Weber |
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8cd4175
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She really should be careful about imputing sordid motives to the First Lord. Not because she doubted that he had them, but because not even Sir Edward Janacek could have only sordid motivations. That would have completely devalued his ability to do such things out of simple stupidity, instead of calculation.
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David Weber |
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3a3df69
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If one of her officers needed reprimanding, she would attend to it in private, just as she made it a point to deliver praise in public.
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David Weber |
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87f2996
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McKeon: "You know Hauptman is going to deny they had anything to do with it [smuggling]." "Forty-three million in illegal peltries? Of course they will, just as 's captain insists the space fairies must have brought them," Honor said ironically."
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David Weber |
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94f2c1f
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They could hate her guts all they liked as long as they did their duty.
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David Weber |
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ad04eea
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Whatever it took, she would discharge her own duties and meet her own responsibilities. Not just to protect her career, but because they were her duties and responsibilities.
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David Weber |
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af78c57
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The list went on and on, and there'd been a time when she'd craved those medals, those confirmations of achievement and ability. She was proud of them even now, but they were no longer the stuff of dreams. She'd learned too much about what those bits of ribbon cost.
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David Weber |
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52b3945
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Mother's casting hungry looks at my exec again," she complained. "Not to worry," her father replied. "She looks a lot, but she's never had any reason to roam." "You're as bad as she is!"
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David Weber |
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5e07d38
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the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.
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true
morality
inspirational-quotes
philosophy
truth
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c17dc06
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They never saw the other side of the coin, the responsibility to keep going because your people needed you to and the agony of knowing misjudgment or carelessness could kill far more than just yourself. Or the infinitely worse agony of sentencing your own people to die because you had no choice. Because it was their duty to risk their lives, and it was yours to take them into death's teeth with you . . . or send them on ahead.
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David Weber |
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a09d18a
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Dying gloriously sounds good in bad historical novels. Speaking for myself, I think doing it in real life when you don't have to is fucking stupid, and it irritates the hell out of me that we don't appear to have any choice.
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David Weber |
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012a6c2
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All right, Chief Killian." She allowed herself an airy gesture at the forward visual display. "That away--full military power."
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David Weber |
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a4f1158
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Na zlomecek vecnosti obema lodim nic nebranilo ve volne strelbe na protivnika a v tom okamziku dva ruzne pocitace odstartovaly sve palebne plany. Zadny lidsky smysl nedokazal postrehnout, co se odehralo potom; zadny lidsky mozek by si to neumel prebrat. Vzajemna vzdalenost cinila dvacet tisic kilometru a rizene strely, lasery a grasery dstily zkazu pres tu miniaturni propast vakua jako rozzureni demoni. Ahmed zavravoral, kdyz jeho bocnim st..
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David Weber |