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• You have to be careful who you let define your good.

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  Be Careful, Careful

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.70, Baen Books

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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.

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  Momentum, Virtue, Dare

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

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  Cutting, Do It Yourself, Universe

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.522, Baen Books

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• Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

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  Girl, Suicidal, Mean

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

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  Judging, May, Lasts

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.123, Baen Books

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• Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

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• Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

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  Children, Blessing, Age

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.382, Baen Books

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• An honor is not diminished for being shared.

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  Inspirational, Army, Honor

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.170, Baen Books

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• My home is not a place, it is people.

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  Life, Home, People

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

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  Want, Invisible Monsters, Action

  "Memory". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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• I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

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  Atheist, Simple, Atheism

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.154, Baen Books

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• One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

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  Wine, Bisexual, Thoughtful

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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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  Motivational, Heart, My Heart

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.69, Baen Books

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• Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

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  Friendship, Real, Adversity

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.62, Baen Books

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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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  Men, Choices, Events

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• Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

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  Life, Heart, Desire

  "Memory". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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• You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

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  Time, Littles, Sticks

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.352, Baen Books

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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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  Saint, Scream, Jokes

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

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  Blessing, Views, Point Of View

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• If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

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  Friendship, People, Resistance

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Diplomatic Immunity”, p.49, Baen Books

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• Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

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  Nomenclature, Waste, Pedants

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.186, Baen Books

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• The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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  Powerful, Stupid, Alternatives

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• A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

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  Son, Good Friend, Lost Friendship

  "Ethan of Athos". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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• I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

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  Girl, Sorry, Play

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• I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

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  Missing, Wish, Minutes

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.13, Baen Books

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