There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

About Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

More quotations from Lois McMaster Bujold

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Be gentle with the young.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

—Henry George

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

—George Washington

While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis.

—George Bernard Shaw

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