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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Miles is... Miles close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
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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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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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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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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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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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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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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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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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