Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Responsibility
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Now there's this about cynicism. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.