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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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  1. We don't just march on the future, we charge it.
  2. Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.
  3. Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
  4. When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate. New ensigns were supposed to…
  5. The good face pain. But the great--they embrace it.
  6. If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be able to do it.
  7. Don't be afraid. The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face tha…
  8. Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.

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  • war
  • strategy
  • power
  • negotiation
  • weapons

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