| If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? |
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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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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| A good friend of my son's is a son to me. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Adversity does teach who your real friends are. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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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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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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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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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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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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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| You try to give away what you want yourself. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| An honor is not diminished for being shared. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold |
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