Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action. - Lois McMaster Bujold

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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

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A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

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