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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."
By Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."
By Mary Hirsch
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"Honor does not have to be defended."
By Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
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"How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension."
By Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
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"Hit hard, hit fast, hit often."
By William "Bull" Halsey, Admiral, USN
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"Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?"
By Ernest Thompson Seton
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
By George Burns
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"Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is."
By Will Rogers, Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
By Fred Allen
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"Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves."
By J. G. C. Brainard
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
By Gore Vidal
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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."
By Sydney Smith
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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
By Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
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"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."
By Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
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"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
By George Sheehan
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"History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small."
By Mark Yost
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"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these."
By George Washington Carver
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"He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great."
By Herman Melville
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"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it."
By Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
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"Happy is he who can give himself up."
By Naguib Mahfouz
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