Great CIV QUOTES Wanted!

[J Bytheway]

These quotes are becoming very un-civ-related .

[Immortal Wombat]

Its a Civ3 trolling metaphor...

[Az]

"I'd prefer to be a Nazi than some illogical communist."
- Boddington's.

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[Zoid]

OK! Time for some Babylon 5 quotes...

I am grey, I stand between the candle and the star.
We are grey, we stand between the darkness and the light.
-Grey Council motto (Babylon 5)
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Physics tell us that for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back. And so, here we are. Victims of mathematics.
-Londo Mollari in Babylon 5 "A voice in the wilderness, pt 1"
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Without hope that things will get better and that our inheritors will know a world that is fuller and richer that our own, life is pointless and evolution is vastly overated.
-Delenn in Babylon 5 "A voice in the wilderness, pt 1"
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We live for The One. We die for The One.
-Minbari saying (Babylon 5)
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Even for an alien, this one is pretty alien.
-Dr. Kyle to Cmdr Sinclair about Ambassador Kosh in Babylon 5: "The Gathering"
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We had to stop them, .. no matter what it cost. They came at us out of nowhere. We never had a chance. The sky was full of stars and every star an exploding ship -- one of ours.
-Cmdr Sinclair about The Battle of the Line in Babylon 5: "The Gathering"
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A poem: a story in meter or rhyme.
Ahh. 'There once was a man from Nantucket..
You've been talking to Garibaldi again, haven't you?
-Ambassador Delenn and Cmdr Sinclair in Babylon 5: "The Gathering
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Commander, this little breach of security isn't going to affect my Christmas bonus, is it?"
-Security Chief Garibaldi to Cmdr Sinclair in Babylon 5: "The Gathering"
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No, she's always quiet. We think maybe there's something wrong with her.
Yes .. or something very right. The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe, Luc Derardi. The loud ones only take the credit.
-Luc Derardi and Londo Mollari in Babylon 5: "In the Beginning"
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The truth points to itself.
What?
The truth points to itself.
I do not understand.
You will.
-Kosh and Delenn in Babylon 5: "In the Beginning"
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Why do you come here, Delenn?
I come to serve.
Who do you serve?
I serve the truth.
What is the truth?
That we are one people, one voice.
Will you follow me into fire? Will you follow me into darkness? Will you follow me into death?
I will.
Then follow.
-Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5: "In the Beginning"
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The Centauris didn't exactly invent jump gate technology either. None of the current races did. They found the gates when they got out into space, took them apart and put them back together again. No one even knows who built the first gate.
-Bill Morishi in Babylon 5:"Thirdspace"
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Maybe you might find something useful by sheer accident. But maybe you'll push the wrong button and blow yourself up.
I know. Exciting, isn't it?
-Dr. Elizabeth Trent and Sheridan in Babylon 5: "Thirdspace"
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Nothing good comes easy, Klaus.
Nothing bad comes easy, either. I find it far more annoying when the universe makes you work for your damnation. I'd prefer it just gave it to me, save me the effort."
-Dr. Robert Bryson and Klaus in Babylon 5: "The River of Souls"
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Ok. So I believe in heaven. You've got a problem with that?
No heaven. Nothing beyond. Only the dark, impenetrable wall of death.
-Zack Allan and the Soul Hunter in Babylon 5: "The River of Souls"
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There is strength enough in one mind, one soul, to change the universe. Can you imagine how much strength there would be in one billion souls, all focused on escape?
- The Soul Hunter in Babylon 5: "The River of Souls"
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If all they wanted was a spokesperson they could have picked any image from the holobrothel. But they chose the one they knew would draw my attention. Why else would they choose my image?
I heard it's very popular.
Is it?"
So I'm told.
-Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The River of Souls"
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And just one more thing. On your trip back I'd like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra: 'Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out.' Babylon Control out. .. Civilians! [Looks up] I was just kidding about the God part -- no offense."
-Ivanova in Babylon 5: "A Voice in the Wilderness pt. 1"
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[Zoid]

Kamrat X: Really Colon... The stats are a tad too nerdy even for Poly.

Trip: We're only as nerdy as the admins make us.

Colon: People have polymeetings all the time, there's a polyradio, there's even a store selling poly mugs and t-shirts, and you're saying this is too nerdy?

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[aaglo]

"OK! Time for some Babylon 5 quotes..."

And the thread title is "Great CIV QUOTES Wanted!"
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[Zoid]

Originally posted by aaglo
"OK! Time for some Babylon 5 quotes..."

And the thread title is "Great CIV QUOTES Wanted!"
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The quotes database is swamped with ST-quotes anyway so I thought I would even out the numbers...

[The Mad Monk]

The capacity of a grass leaf to grow from the sheath at its base is a useful adaptation to herbivore grazing. It has also resulted, over the eons, in the piteous spectacle of thousands of hominids vibrating behind their lawnmowers from spring to fall.
-- Someone's AP Biology Textbook
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[Richelieu]

code

" I've already forgotten more things than you will ever learn."
- Uncle John

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[DarkCloud]

Reposted:

"I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs."
- Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis
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I've never won an argument by calling someone an idiot.
It's better that they don't figure it out for a couple of days.
- rah
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"The populace of your country- um what is it- ah yes- Cuba. Well, it needs a president who knows what he is governing"
-DarkCloud
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I also find it offensive that people are using my true quotations in these highly offensive jokes.
- Giancarlo
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"That's sad"
"You mean sad in a cool kinda way"
"No, sad as in a Star Trek convention"
-Lemmy
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Abnormal program termination
ASCII to ASCII, DOS to DOS
-Skanky Burns
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C:\Dos RUN
RUN Dos
RUN
- Unattribuited
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"Middle-class people don't commit crimes."
- Stewart Spink
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AND BONUS- and actual Church Bulletin Writing

Come see the Epiphony of the Lord
- Christian Church
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BONUS- actual Church hymn

"He is The God who slaughtered the first born of egypt!
CHORUS: Our Lord is kind and merciful.
He killed all the Cannanites
CHORUS: Our Lord is kind and merciful"
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"You know, Will, we've been through this before. Civilization: Call to Power is ABSOLUTELY the official sequel to Civ 1 and
Civ 2. And not just in the name. It is Civ 3."
- Peter "Enjolras" Karpas Sr. Product Manager, Activision, Inc.
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...and we could, of course always add HARDMAN's infamous sayings

[dunk]

code:

There are many people who live who deserve death. There are many people who die who deserve life, can you give it to them?

-Gandalf the Grey

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[Panag]

hi ,

"live is what you make out of it" , ....


have a nice day

[DarkCloud]

Mark, could the archives please only have quotes to do with

WAR
CIV
or
APOLYTON
or of course
COMPUTERS/GEEK CULTURE

It just seems strange seeing an ernest hemingway quote

But good work- the complaints are a good sign that the quotes are working and being noticed

[SITS]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
Mark, could the archives please only have quotes to do with

WAR
CIV
or
APOLYTON
or of course
COMPUTERS/GEEK CULTURE

It just seems strange seeing an ernest hemingway quote

But good work- the complaints are a good sign that the quotes are working and being noticed

Why limit your life so?

[Jaguar]

In other news, Bush says the economy is now on target. However, the Taliban says it missed and killed several civilians.
-- Jay Leno

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Fall is my favorite season in LA, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
-- Dave Letterman

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I assure you that the typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
-- Oscar Wilde

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What a waste it is to lose one's mind - or not to have a mind. How true that is.
-- Dan Quayle

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I hate all ports as rabidly as a person who likes all sports hates common sense.
-- H. L. Mencken

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Rowe's Rule: The odds are 5 to 6 that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
--Paul Dickson

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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be, and if t were so, it would be, but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
--Lewis Carroll

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Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
--Jeff Valdez

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BTW, the dan quayle quote is real. I hate people who spread urban legend quotes.