"Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Perspective Quotes #Building Quotes #Accounts Quotes

“People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.”
“What are you two doing flirting with this nerd? I told you, you are supposed to be in charge of the 50 dancing girls I had set up for Miz's celebration.”
“There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship. And I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.”
“But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.”
“We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.”
“The best tunes are songs with a face. You recognize them. You know them. Itâ€™s like a person. They have a face thatâ€™s outstanding. Other songs donâ€™t have a face. You just hear them, thatâ€™s all. The really good ones are few and far between.”
“What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?”
“I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.”

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