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Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)

by Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)

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“The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.”
― Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer

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“Human history is full of social conventions designed to salve the consciences of the mighty and curb the ambitions of the small.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

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“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

tags: aspiration, dream, work

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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“Every revolutionary group I ever knew spent far longer clutching for how to describe what they were than talking about what they were going to do.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

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