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• You have to be careful who you let define your good.

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  Be Careful, Careful

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.70, Baen Books

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• A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

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  Change, Mind, Enemy

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• Honor is what you know about yourself.

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  Honor, About Yourself, Honored

  ""A Civil Campaign"". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

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  Saws, Engineers

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• The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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  Stupid, Mistake, Ignorance

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• All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

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  People, Worry, Moments

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2010). “Cryoburn”, p.97, gfdg hfdhdg

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• Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

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  Elbows, Panic, Miles

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.176, Baen Books

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• I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

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  Heaven, Storm, Ifs

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• One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

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  Wine, Bisexual, Thoughtful

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• Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

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  Sleep, Soldier, Next

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.349, Baen Books

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• I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
  - Jimi Hendrix,
  
  “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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  Justice, Want, Way

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• You try to give away what you want yourself.

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  Giving, Trying, Want

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.47, Baen Books

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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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  Garden, Delight, Measurement

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.177, Baen Books

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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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  Kindness, Heart, Men

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• This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

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  Lying, Integrity, Heart

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• For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

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  Book, Writing, Planning

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• You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

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  Children, Common Humanity, Hands

  "A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

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  Talking, People, Giving

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.463, Baen Books

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• What you are is a question only you can answer.

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  Teaching, Learning, Reality

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

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  Running, Giving, Bleeding

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• All true wealth is biological.

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  Wealth, True Wealth

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1994). “Mirror Dance”, p.313, Baen Books

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• Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

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  Giving, Smirk, Speak

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• I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

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  Sorry, Pain, Love You

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.110, Baen Books

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• Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

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  Pain, Joy, Endure

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.382, Baen Books

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• It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

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  Motivational, Mirrors, Punishment

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1994). “Mirror Dance”, p.129, Baen Books

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