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“I have a particular aversion to stalemates. I prefer winning wars to prolonging them.”
She sighed, momentarily drained, tired, old. “I’ve been at war a long time, y’know? After a while even losing a war can start to look preferable to prolonging it.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold The Borders of Infinity (1987)

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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

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I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.

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

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