S. M. Stirling Quotes

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

S. M. Stirling
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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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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Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

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Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

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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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The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.

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

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

S. M. Stirling