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"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."
"It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions."
"To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new."
"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."
"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."
"Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment."
"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."
"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."
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"And this was your friend?' Cordelia raised her eyebrows. 'Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you."
"Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy.' Dag gulped. Both of their grounds were nearly closed. It was Arkady's voice alone that hinted how hard-bought this bit of wisdom might've been, yet the words had been nearly toneless."
"Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease-that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."
"The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business."
"A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry-even if he is at a convenient height for it."
"This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same."
"Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there...."
"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you."
"Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children-children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too."
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