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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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trying
stupidity
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.
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fear
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Mercedes Lackey |
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The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?
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love
lost-love
life-lesson
grieving
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
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weakness
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Mercedes Lackey |
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It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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prejudice
inexperience
mercedes-lackey
ignorance
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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
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proverb
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Mercedes Lackey |
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One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is..
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history
humor
latin
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
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prejudice
fantasy
religion
truth
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The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
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freedom
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Mercedes Lackey |
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First commandment: there ain't no such thing as "one true way" and the way you find is only good for you, not anybody else, because your interpretation of what you see and feel and understand as the truth is never going to be the same as anyone else's. Second commandment: the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself. Third commandment: leave the world better than you found it. Fourth commandment: if it isn't true, going ..
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Mercedes Lackey |
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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
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fantasy
malediction
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Mercedes Lackey |
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If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!"
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t-fyrr
satire
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Established religion is like established anything else. It's easy. It offers answers you can get prepackaged and predigested, right off the shelf, and the same for everybody. No thinking required, much less hard thinking. Like a board game--you follow the rules, you go to heaven. That's why established religion gets the assholes. They aren't "good" Christians. I rather doubt they ever gave up a thing they valued for any reason or anybody. P..
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion--it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
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relationships
unrequited-love
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good -- they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
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truth
inspirational
life-philosophy
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Mercedes Lackey |
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976e75a
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Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don't give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who's name you do it in.
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religion
tolerance
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.
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life
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Mercedes Lackey |
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from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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everything written is at least in part fantasy.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in ..
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
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struggle
illness
difficulty
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
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Mercedes Lackey |
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I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
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heroes
heroism
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Mercedes Lackey |
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83f1bfe
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It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.
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Mercedes Lackey |