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Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.
Cetaganda (1996)
“The best strategies run on rails like that.” Miles pointed out. “Live or die, you make your goal.”
Cetaganda (1996)
“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” Not when the enemy is me.
Cetaganda (1996)
In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.
Cetaganda (1996)
Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.
Cetaganda (1995)
“Good luck,” snorted Ivan.
“Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.”
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You can’t give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.
Cetaganda (1996)
Rian seemed less and less like a damsel in distress all the time. In fact, he was beginning to wonder if he was trying to rescue the dragon.
Cetaganda (1996)
Hi, I’m a hero, but I can’t tell you why. It’s classified.
Cetaganda (1996)
Vorreedi stated dangerously, “I am not a mushroom, Lieutenant Vorkosigan.”
To be kept in the dark and fed on horseshit, right. Miles sighed inwardly.
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Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.
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“So use your initiative!”
“I don’t have initiative. I follow orders, thank you. It’s much safer.”
“Fine, I order you to use your initiative.”
Cetaganda (1996)
Vorreedi, Miles reminded himself, was Intelligence, not Counter-intelligence; curiosity, not paranoia, was his driving force.
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“How did your mother cope, Lord Vorkosigan?”
“You mean, being an egalitarian Betan and all? No problem. She says egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.”
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All in all, it was probably a good thing these youths had no political interests. They were just the sort of people who started revolutions but could not finish them, their idealism betrayed by their incompetence.
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He knew now why they called it “falling in love.” There was the same nauseating vertigo of free fall, the same vast exhilaration, the same sick certainty of broken bones upon impact with a rapidly rising reality.
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“Hands are to be hired. Design is the test of the intellect.”
“I must disagree. In my experience, hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one’s hands, one does not truly know.”
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“Do me the honor of grasping that I may just possibly know what I’m doing!” I wish to hell I knew what I was doing. Intuition was nothing but the subconscious processing of subliminal clues, he was fairly sure, but I feel it in my bones made too uncomfortably thin a public defense for his actions.
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