David Drake Quotes

• “Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.”

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• “The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.”

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• “History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”

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• “Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…”

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• “Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.”

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• “First initiative, then life.”

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• “To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,” “Gentlemen-Rankers,” Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling”

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• “A good officer can get away with being wrong, but he can't be indecisive.”

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• “As my Uncle Theodosius always said: never chase women who are a lot smarter than you. You won't catch them, or, what's worse, you might.”

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• “At that point I made all of them shut up while I explained that a friend is someone who will give you a drink from his canteen and watch while you sleep.”

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• “Adventure is somebody else in deep shit, far, far away,”

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• “Life's a forge, boy, and the purest metal comes from the hottest fire. When you've been under the hammer a few times, you'll find you've been beaten down to the real, no lies, no excuses. There'll”

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• “I don’t have any problem with what other people believe, so long as they don’t expect their beliefs to affect my behavior.”

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• “Come on, Sunshine, if you think you’re hard enough.”

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• “Logic wasn't the governing factor here. It rarely is in human affairs.”

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• “If that meant Adele was lying to a politician, it was merely a pleasant reversal of roles.”

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• “In what distant deeps or skies Burned the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?   — The Tyger    William Blake”

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• “For what we are about to receive . . . ,” murmured someone over the command net. “May the gods make us thankful.”

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• “People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn’t agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of ‘the universe’ in this regard.”

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• “I've decided that it's better to be alive until it's time to be buried.”

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• “…Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight, I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.” Alfred Noyes The Highwayman”

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• “I suppose I would be wiser to adjust my attitude rather than to expect the universe to change reality.”

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• “The universe has never appeared to me to be particularly fair,” Adele said at last. “I think some people should be thankful for that reality.”

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• “It wasn’t that they had different principles; rather, their principles were of such different sorts that neither one could recognize that the other even had principles.”

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• “A fire department isn't a waste of tax money, even if those assigned to it spend most of the time washing their cars.”

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