More from Lois McMaster Bujold

  1. 'It didn't work, so let's do it some more'? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don't know what they call it in civili…
  2. When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
  3. And what goes on in the head of a walking dead man? What personal failure could he possibly fear more than death itself?
  4. Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.
  5. No, no, never send interim reports. Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must either then obey, or spend valua…
  6. Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.
  7. The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.
  8. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.

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