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• “Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.” – Baltasar Gracian http://tqpage.com/3041 #
• “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” – Jane Austen http://tqpage.com/30583 #
• “Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” – Walt Whitman http://tqpage.com/38501 #
• “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” – Marian Evans http://tqpage.com/2100 #

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• “What worries you masters you.” – Haddon W. Robinson http://tqpage.com/1673 #
• “My home is not a place, it is people.” – Lois McMaster Bujold http://tqpage.com/25890 #
• “We are always the same age inside.” – Gertrude Stein http://tqpage.com/39979 #
• “What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.” – Stanley Kunitz http://tqpage.com/33495 #

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• “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare http://tqpage.com/3211 #
• “To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.” – Arnold Toynbee http://tqpage.com/1591 #
• “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” – Napoleon Bonaparte http://tqpage.com/2191 #
• “Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.” – Sean Stewart http://tqpage.com/37159 #

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• “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato http://tqpage.com/2128 #
• “There’s no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.” – Moliere http://tqpage.com/40095 #
• RT@SheilaAtwood The true test of civilization is not the size of cities nor the crops no, but the kind of man the country turns out Emerson #
• “Good order is the foundation of all things.” – Edmund Burke http://tqpage.com/3236 #
• “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Vernon Sanders Law http://tqpage.com/2162 #

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I have been looking for a good science fiction book ever since I finished the Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld. John Scalzi was recommended to me FOUR years ago by Unshelved:

• Unshelved comic strip: Old Man’s War

I put it on a list and didn’t look at it again until I downloaded the Amazon Kindle application for my iPhone [iTunes Link]. I went on a book buying spree for an entire month and the first book I bought and read on my iPhone was Old Man’s War.

John Perry is 75 years old and nearing the end of his life. He and his wife volunteered for the Colonial Defense Force because they were promised a new body and the ability to live another life. Unfortunately, John’s wife died before she turned 75 years old. Now that John is ready to be enlisted, he leaves behind Earth forever to find the horrors of war and deep space.

Here are the quotes that I gleaned from this excellent novel:

Not since the last Bujold book with Miles Vorkosigan have I read a book with this much enjoyment and immersion. I loved John Perry and the themes of love and marriage that run throughout the book. It was absolutely wonderful!