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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
You try to give away what you want yourself.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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