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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Columbus
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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
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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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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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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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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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