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<option><small>What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow<br/>Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,<br/>You cannot say, or guess, for you know only<br/>A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,<br/>And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,<br/>And the dry stone no sound of water. Only<br/>There is shadow under this red rock,<br/>(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),<br/>And I will show you something different from either<br/>Your shadow at morning striding behind you<br/>Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;<br/>I will show you fear in a handful of dust.</small>|Thomas S. Elliot</option> | <option><small>What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow<br/>Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,<br/>You cannot say, or guess, for you know only<br/>A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,<br/>And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,<br/>And the dry stone no sound of water. Only<br/>There is shadow under this red rock,<br/>(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),<br/>And I will show you something different from either<br/>Your shadow at morning striding behind you<br/>Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;<br/>I will show you fear in a handful of dust.</small>|Thomas S. Elliot</option> | ||
<option>Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.|Ralph W. Emerson</option> | <option>Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.|Ralph W. Emerson</option> | ||
<option><small>What do you hope to accomplish?<br/>I wanted to protect them, but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything.<br/>And you would let it end there? So you would put down your sword and stop fighting?<br/>Believe me, I never wanted it to end this way! I wanted the brightest future for everyone!<br/>If you have any desire to keep up that fight, I will give you the power you need.<br/>IF I use that power, will I be able to change the future?<br/>That all depends on you.<br/>I am the Princess of Oriana, and, as such, there are things that I must do! As Rose Oriana, there are hopes I want to keep alive. I want the power to achieve that!<br/>...Rise up, and prove to me that you are willing to keep up the fight. Never forget that that true strength lies not in one's power, but in one's way of being.</small>|The Eminence in Shadow</option> | |||
<option>Every weakness contains within itself a strength.|Shūsaku Endō</option> | <option>Every weakness contains within itself a strength.|Shūsaku Endō</option> | ||
<option>Burn away the flags. Begin again.|Fallout: New Vegas</option> | <option>Burn away the flags. Begin again.|Fallout: New Vegas</option> | ||
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<option>I, a stranger, and afraid, in a world I never made.|Alfred E. Housman</option> | <option>I, a stranger, and afraid, in a world I never made.|Alfred E. Housman</option> | ||
<option>You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.|Aldous Huxley</option> | <option>You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.|Aldous Huxley</option> | ||
<option>Orbis non sufficit. | <option>Orbis non sufficit.<br/>The world is not enough.|Juvenal, The Satires</option> | ||
<option>The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me/<br>Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.|Robinson Jeffers</option> | <option>The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me/<br>Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.|Robinson Jeffers</option> | ||
<option>I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....|Erica Jong</option> | <option>I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....|Erica Jong</option> | ||
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<option>Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.|Clifford D. Simak</option> | <option>Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.|Clifford D. Simak</option> | ||
<option><small>Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.</small>|J. Michael Straczynski</option> | <option><small>Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.</small>|J. Michael Straczynski</option> | ||
<option>Look at you hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?|System Shock</option> | |||
<option>I'm not lost. I've simply wandered further into the darkness than you care to brave.|Fiona Summerville</option> | <option>I'm not lost. I've simply wandered further into the darkness than you care to brave.|Fiona Summerville</option> | ||
<option>...Come, my friends,<br>'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.|Alfred, Lord Tennyson</option> | <option>...Come, my friends,<br>'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.|Alfred, Lord Tennyson</option> | ||
Latest revision as of 23:41, 17 June 2026
| “ | What do you hope to accomplish? I wanted to protect them, but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything. And you would let it end there? So you would put down your sword and stop fighting? Believe me, I never wanted it to end this way! I wanted the brightest future for everyone! If you have any desire to keep up that fight, I will give you the power you need. IF I use that power, will I be able to change the future? That all depends on you. I am the Princess of Oriana, and, as such, there are things that I must do! As Rose Oriana, there are hopes I want to keep alive. I want the power to achieve that! ...Rise up, and prove to me that you are willing to keep up the fight. Never forget that that true strength lies not in one's power, but in one's way of being. |
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| — The Eminence in Shadow | ||
