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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
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Destiny
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Patience
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The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
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So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.
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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
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Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
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For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.
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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.
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There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.
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Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.
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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
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Survival has its own etiquette.
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Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.
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Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.
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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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