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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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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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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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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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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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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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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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