S.M. Stirling Quotes

#1. Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

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#2. It is easy to kill. It is equally easy to destroy glass windows. Any fool can do either. Why is it only the wise who perceive that it is wisdom to let live, when even lunatics can sometimes understand that it is better to open a window than to smash the glass?

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#3. The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

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#4. And the first king was a lucky soldier.

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#5. . . . you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.

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#6. Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill.

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#7. necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.

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#8. O God, You know me to be set in the midst of great peril. Grant me such strength of mind and body, that those evils which I suffer for my sins I may overcome through Thy assistance. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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#9. Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

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#10. Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

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#11. Love isn't like money
the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

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#12. Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

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#13. There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

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#14. A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

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#15. Good to have powerful friends. Even better to be a powerful friend, neh?

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#16. They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In

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#17. To take life was to understand your own death
that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

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#18. Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

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#19. Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

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#20. I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

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#21. Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

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#22. A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.

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#23. You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

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#24. Stress" is mostly the result of not being allowed to kill some asshole you really want to slice and dice.

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