"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Firsts Quotes #Retreat Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.”
“I am a dumb piece of meat and I rot everyday my flesh gives a rotting smell and people say it's the smell of life and they come to me and watch me rot and get happy and upset and annoyed and disgusted and maybe sometimes feel compassion but they don't realize they are rotting too.”
“Common sense is strengthened by joy.”
“Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.”
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. Itâ€™s a sort of crime against childhood.”
“In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.”
“I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2011.

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