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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, it read, so He created engineers.
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Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees--M.S., M.D., Ph.D...
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I don't know whose judgement is worse, yours or the jerk's who hired you--
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Claire, listen to me. The proper response to Bruce isn't suicide, it's murder.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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GalacTech's not God, Claire. You shouldn't have to sacrifice your firstborn to it.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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There are weapons all around us here, we just don't recognize them because we call them "tools."
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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This isn't a class. This is real life.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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We've run into a problem, Leo.""But of course. Who ever tracks me down to impart good news?
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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We make our own luck. And it's my responsibility to see it's good and not bad.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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He gave himself up to God and pressed the button.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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She took the story in like some strange, spiked gift, too fragile to drop, too painful to hold.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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I have an aversion to closed doors anyway. You never know what's on the other side.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Anybody ever tell you you're a lunatic?""Not in this context."
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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I'm sure we'd all rather be clever than brave.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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So in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it's time that's absolute.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Why shouldn't a madman dream of being sane?
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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I've always felt that theists were more ruthless than atheists.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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A person's things can be a kind of exterior morphology of their mind.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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What a strange world you must live in, inside your head.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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An honor is not diminished for being shared.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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My home is not a place, it is a person, sir.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Our children change us...whether they live or not.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Let me help. Rhymes with I\xa0love\xa0you, right?
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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It's never too late while you're breathing.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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A mercenary who can't honor his contract when it's rough as well as smooth is a thug, not a soldier.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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That idea only makes sense if you don't think too hard about it.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Yeah, so I'm short. But wait'll you see me dance.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Aren't family squabbles jolly fun? Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Ordinary people need extraordinary examples.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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How small those mountains looked from space!
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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We don't just march on the future, we charge it.
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