His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more ve...

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold in Memory (1996)
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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