Top 33 Jack Campbell Quotes
#1. You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
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#2. Anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.
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#3. Oh, by the way, you left out one step in the plan."
"What step was that?"
"The one where we pray this works, Admiral.
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#4. It is well that war is so terrible, because otherwise people would grow too fond of it,
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#5. How can you be so cold-blooded about everything?"
She could have sworn that one corner of the Mage's mouth twitched upward for just an instant as he gestured toward the sun beating down upon them. "I am actually quite warm at the moment.
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#6. Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?
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#7. He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.
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#8. Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.
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#9. Doubt about your wisdom can be the clearest sign of wisdom
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#10. What are you going to do for fun if you can't devastate planets anymore?"
"I'll have to find another hobby, I guess.
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#11. Most having reached the places they needed to be and devoted themselves to what needed to be done.
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#12. I respect you far too much to think that empty pride is the only motivator you could call on. I think what you call pride is something much more than that. Belief in yourselves, perhaps, or perseverance in the face of adversity. Those are things to be proud of. That's not the same as being proud.
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#13. Mari took one more look at the Mechanic boiler, bit her lip, then looked at him. I'm going to say this because in another minute we may be dead, and I don't want to die not having told you. I love you.
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#14. Fine." Desjani sighed. "Admiral, I recommend we get our intelligence officer up here to see if he can craft lovely poems for the singing spider wolves.
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#15. You know, like that old Catch 42 expression that stands for the meaning of life is that in the end you always get screwed.
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#16. Mari reached over and retrieved her cup of stew, sipping at it. "It's cold. Yours must be, too. Sorry."
Alain picked up his and finished it off quickly. "Between the fire and your presence, I am warm enough.
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#17. The longstanding thorn in your side Captain Numos is stupid. In fact, Numos is so dense that I'm surprised he doesn't have his own event horizon.
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#18. Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.
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#19. How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?
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#20. There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.
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#21. People didn't fight for grand causes or great purposes, but for the closest and most personal of reasons. They might say the fought for high ideals, but in practice they fought for the comrades beside them and their loved ones at home.
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#23. Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.
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#24. I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.
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#25. Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.
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#26. From the stars we came, and to the stars we return.
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#27. Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.
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#28. Data that conflicts with beliefs is often ignored,
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#29. Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.
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#30. Hungry for breath
like a kite falling stray,
the wire grows slack
the child within pulls at the empty air.
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#31. Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway.
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#33. I never liked cows," General Carabali added. "I like heavily armed cows even less. And I like at least thirty billion heavily armed cows least of all.
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