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When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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  1. 'You must kill if you expect to survive.'
  2. Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.
  3. '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…
  4. Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.
  5. And what goes on in the head of a walking dead man? What personal failure could he possibly fear more than death itself?
  6. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
  7. No, no, never send interim reports. Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must either then obey, or spend valua…
  8. Vorreedi stated dangerously, 'I am not a mushroom, Lieutenant Vorkosigan.'

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Topics in this quote

  • reality
  • adaptation
  • compromise

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