It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.


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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
You try to give away what you want yourself.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't tr...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. Sh...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better o...
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on ...
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnatio...
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But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pa...
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Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get fo...
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's ski...
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then yo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did...
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if y...
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see our...
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A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new f...
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Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his ...
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin...
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible...
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Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you h...
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Vormurtos leaned on the frame with his arms crossed, and failed to move aside.

At Miles's...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gi...
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Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g...
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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He let his head rest against the crisp cloth of her uniform jacket a moment longer. She shifted, her...
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Mon Dieu, it’s the little admiral,” she said cheerfully. “What are you doing here?” Ignoring...
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The door was locked. The control had been buggered. Miles ripped it apart, shorted it out, and heave...
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How does a kidnapping grab you?” She giggled inexplicably. “Absolutely not!” “Oh, you’re g...
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We’re just good friends,” caroled Miles, and laughed hysterically. He lunged for the comconsole�...
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You make yourself sound like a Venn diagram. ‘The set of all sets which are members of themselves�...
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Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—
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. . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.
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I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me,...
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