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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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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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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 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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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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All true wealth is biological.
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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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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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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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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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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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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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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 can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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