Quote #16

It's... a transcendental act. Making life. I thought about that when I was carrying Miles. 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between.

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  1. My home is not a place, it is people.
  2. You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
  3. Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
  4. Live, and so confound our enemies.
  5. Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
  6. Our children change us:whether they live or not.
  7. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
  8. Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

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