Lois McMaster Quotes
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over.
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I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
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We owe it to the American people to take our time to be sure the nominee will uphold their most basic and fundamental rights. The public demands this from the process, and deserve no less.
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I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.
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I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
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Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
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[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.
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Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina.
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You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
