Quote #56

You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.

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  2. Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.
  3. Vorreedi stated dangerously, 'I am not a mushroom, Lieutenant Vorkosigan.'
  4. The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.
  5. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
  6. Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.
  7. Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.
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