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To get the right answer, one must first correctly frame the question.
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We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement.
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She probably felt about matrimony the way Miles felt about needle-grenade launchers.
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Knowledge might not be power, but ignorance was definitely weakness, and so was poverty.
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He couldn't make this go faster by pushing harder.
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I propose a treaty. You can have all the rest of the women in the universe. I just want this one.
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You had to admire their honesty. No wonder they did so well at the sciences.
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My brother has this bad little habit of editing his version of reality to fit his audience.
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If you're just now finding out that this world is unjust, well, you're behind the times.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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I could be a virgin again. What a dreadful thought.
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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dde2830
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She wondered when not dull had become her prime criterion for mate selection.
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He lived, therefore he learned.
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Even love is not as strong as habit, eh?
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How can you stand me? I can't even stand me.
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d381c81
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
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ef36134
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Your talent for making interesting new enemies has evidently not deserted you.
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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.
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Taura nailed it. She'll do for m'lord, all right. And God help their enemies.
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Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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d21727f
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There is a great deal of sanity to be saved in letting the past go, and moving on.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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Yet if the truth doesn't serve us, what does that say about us, eh?
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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He was borrowing trouble, reasoning in advance of his data.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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There's nothing like the threat of imminent death to force one to delegate.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Just because I have forgotten so many old enemies does not mean they have forgotten me.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Maybe only love gave you more than what you'd dealt for.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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The most interesting question of history is always, What were these people thinking?
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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No amount of money can make one stay bought. Who does not freely choose to.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Everything in the district competes for resources. The best solution is to make more resources.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Shooting people to keep them from dying had logical flaws obvious to everyone.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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One couldn't fix the past, only the present.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Is it still a victory if you don't get the credit?
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Don't underestimate the viciousness of academics when funding is at stake.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Misplaced paranoia could be as great a mistake as misplaced faith.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Old age," she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough."
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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d910511
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History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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I expect death will still be cheap and always available, doesn't take high tech.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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Babies are just a challenge. Teenagers are a nightmare.
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
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By far the most dangerous animal on the planet was an invasive species of ape.
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