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

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Columbus
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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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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