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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “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.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
    tags: morality
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
    tags: consequences
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: honor, reputation
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
    tags: hanlon-s-razor, malice, stupidity
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: rah
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    Herman Wouk
    “When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
    ― Herman Wouk
    tags: danger, humor
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    “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
    ― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
    tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl
    558 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: challenges, children, luxury
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: experts, impossibilities, limitations, overcoming-obstacles
    420 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    tags: condescending, income-tax, pay, taxes, tyranny
    659 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: religion
    211 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: peace
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Live and learn, or you don't live long.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets
    tags: patriotism, volunteer, volunteering, volunteerism
    87 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: architecture, building, building-industry, cheops, dicta, khufu, megalomania, pyramids
    103 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: marriage
    115 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
    97 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    ― Robert Heinlein
    tags: efficiency, laziness, morning-people, progress
    1022 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: choice, freedom, peace, war
    1047 likes



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