Great CIV QUOTES Wanted!

[aaglo]

Re: Great CIV QUOTES Wanted!

It is not an optical illusion, it only looks like that.
            -- Aaglo 
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[FrustratedPoet]

nice one aaglo. That's just gotta go in.

[aaglo]

I'm not a complete idiot; some parts are still missing
            -- Aaglo
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[aaglo]

         Work is the curse of the drinking class.
              -- Oscar Wilde
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[Solver]

Your betrayal of the Americans is legendary
-- Each time I played Civ 2.
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Markos, now, what about the huge list of quotes I sent you two or three months ago? It has some good miscellaneous quotes, which I think is the way to go, and a few Apolytoner quotes. If you say it's good, I can send you a HUGE another heap. Eh?

[MarkG]

i dont recall it solver, please resend

[Solver]

Sent. See if it's suitable, if yes, I might expand both the general and Apolyton quote sections.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by aaglo

         Work is the curse of the drinking class.
              -- Oscar Wilde
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We could probably come up with about 1000 quotes from Oscar Wilde alone ...

how about:

         All women grow up to be just like their mothers, 
that is their tragedy. No man does, that is his.
              -- Oscar Wilde
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or something like that ... it's been a while since I read that play.

or the classic:

         The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.
Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. 
              -- Oscar Wilde
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[Scouse Gits]

Solver - congratulations - you just made Emperor!

SG[1]

[Solver]

Did I? I had 2950 posts three days ago... umm... some days I make 40 posts a day, though .

[H Tower]

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Visit me at Apolyton.net.
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or how about this one?

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Can I please have my posts back?
-- Everyone
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or this one?

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Answer your private messages Markos!
-- Everyone
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Why was my thread deleted?
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[Playa del Carmen]

hmmm

This one is kind of long, but it made me think of Civ 3...

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

--Oscar Wilde
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

--Ezra Pound
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[Chowlett]

Courtesy of my diary...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant, Reader's Digest, 1972
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with the world.
Cesare Pavese, Italian Novelist
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm, British author
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke, Nature, 1990
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[Immortal Wombat]

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
--Sir Winston Churchill, November 11, 1937 
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Sir Winston Churchill
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
--Sir Winston Churchill
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See a pattern?

Civ ones:

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.
--Sigmund Freud
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
--Will Durant
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You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way.
--Will Rogers
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I just like this one:

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between.
--Oscar Wilde
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[Locutus]

Repost from the other thread:

The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
            -- Mark Twain
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
            -- Mark Twain
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
            -- Mark Twain
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
            -- Mark Twain
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Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
            -- Winston Chruchill
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Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
            -- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition No. 76
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
            -- Arnold J. Toynbee
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
            -- Timothy Leary
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
            -- Will Rogers
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
            -- Will Rogers
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All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
            -- Kenneth Clark
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