Lois McMaster Quotes
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
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And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.