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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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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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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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It was suicide, wasn't it? In an involuntary sort of way, said Vorob'yev. These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate. Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw? murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. Exactly, my lord.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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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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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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