Quotes
Our civilization is built on software.
Bjarne Stroustrup
The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibson
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.
Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran
But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
Lois McMaster Bujold
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
You don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children of the body, it’s left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you make it plain you like people, it’s hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
Lois McMaster Bujold
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Evil begins when you start treating people as things.
Terry Pratchett
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