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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Later
Cutting
Universe
Around
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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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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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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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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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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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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