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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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