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  1. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    People who made the Kingdom better than it dreamed it could be, made it live up to its ideals whether it wanted to or not, because they believed in those ideals and made others believe with them.
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  2. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    There could be no compromise with those who rejected one's own beliefs, for compromise and coexistence only opened the door to schism. A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.
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  3. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.
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  4. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    It wasn't his fault he'd been reared in a nice, safe, civilized society that protected him from the harsh reality of an older and grimmer set of imperatives.
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  5. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    War may represent the failure of diplomacy, but even the best diplomats operate on credit. Sooner or later someone who's less reasonable than you are is going to call you, and if your military can't cover your I.O.U.s, you lose.
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  6. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.
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  7. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.
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  8. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them. "At
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  9. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins." *
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  10. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    How do I know where my doubts over their capability stop being genuine love and concern? When my belief that they must be reeducated before they can become my equal stops being a realistic appreciation of the limitations they've been taught and becomes sophistry to bolster the status quo and protect my own rights and privileges?
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  11. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them.
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  12. David Weber _ The Honor of the Queen

    They never saw the other side of the coin, the responsibility to keep going because your people needed you to and the agony of knowing misjudgment or carelessness could kill far more than just yourself. Or the infinitely worse agony of sentencing your own people to die because you had no choice. Because it was their duty to risk their lives, and it was yours to take them into death's teeth with you . . . or send them on ahead."
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