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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

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
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Biotechnology

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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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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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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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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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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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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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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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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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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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