Lois McMaster Quotes
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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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
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We had a blowout on our hands in the third quarter and we never recovered from that.
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I want in all cases to do right.
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
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I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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[Donald Trump] doesn't deal well with criticism and blame and I don't think he could competently manage the office of the presidency given the criticism and challenge that you face every single day as the President of the United States.
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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.
