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- Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
- Jane Howard, "Families"
- Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
- Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
- A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
- Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
- No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
- Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
- A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
- 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.
- 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.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
- It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
- 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?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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