Lois McMaster Quotes
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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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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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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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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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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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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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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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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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.