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“Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

This evokes the famous statement by George Santayana in The Life of Reason Vol. 1 (1905): "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

“You can't choose between evil and evil, in the dark, by logic. You can only cling to some safety line of principle.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Quelle: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 58

“I have no idea why some of my books draw awards and others don't, except that the ones I spent the least time worrying about other people's response to — that I wrote for myself — seem to do the best of all.”

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"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 54
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

“Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)

“Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees — M. S., M. D., Ph. D…”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)

“Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“"You must go home eventually."
"I would throw myself off a precipice first, except that I would land in the arms of the gods, Whom I do not wish to see again."”

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Quelle: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 61

“Was this the trick of it? Secrets so dire as to be unspeakable, thoughts so frightening as to make clear young voices mute, kicked out into the open with blunt ironic humor. And suddenly the dire didn't loom so darkly any more, and fear shrank, and anyone could say anything. And the unbearable seemed a little easier to lift.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“Let he who is without sin cast the first lure.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)

“Parallels, spirals, and reflections are some of my favorite literary patterns.”

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"Putting It Together" p. 20
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

“I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming. (…) I don't duel. But if you seek to die like a bludgeoned steer, cross me again.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion

The Curse of Chalion (2000)

“A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

“God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)

“She didn't feel anything, no grief or remorse, though her heart was racing and her breath came in gasps. A shocky combat-high, that immortal rush that made men charge machine guns. So this was what the war-addicts came for.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“I don't hate him. I can't say I worship him, either. But when he's cut, I bleed.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

She paused a long time, and looked up to meet her mother’s eyes squarely. “But when he’s cut, I bleed.”

Chapter 12 (p. 184)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

“Mine is not a theology of the elect. I intend to preach to the masses. Even the sinners.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

“If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.”

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Quelle: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 40)

“I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

“Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

“His heart still seemed to ache, the way an overstrained muscle twinged when one put weight on it. Like muscle strain, it would pass with a little rest, he suspected.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

“Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

“Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)

“I gather from the pattern of her flinches that the late unlamented Tien Vorsoisson was one of those subtle feral parasites who leave their mates scratching their heads and asking, "Am I crazy? Am I crazy?"”

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Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

This seems to be derived from a statement attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, and which she regularly used in her public addresses: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)