Lois McMaster Quotes
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
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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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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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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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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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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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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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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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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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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
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All true wealth is biological.