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<option>Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.|Apollo 11 Lunar Plaque</option> | <option>Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.|Apollo 11 Lunar Plaque</option> | ||
<option>What are men to rocks and mountains?|Jane Austen</option> | <option>What are men to rocks and mountains?|Jane Austen</option> | ||
<option>Be the chaos that comes to be. Gods are just like you and me.|Assassin's Creed: Origins</option> | |||
<option><small>Am I a hero? Did I sacrifice too much at the altar of victory? Do my triumphs outweigh my mistakes? War is a clash between conscience and necessity, an ocean of chaos and bloody compromise. War shapes history, and history chooses its heroes. As for you, mercenary... You made the liberation of the Aurigan Reach a reality. Every trial I faced would have been my last without your skill on the battlefield. I still don't know if you fought for honor, or for the thrill of it. For belief in my cause, or just my money. But whether it was your noble heart or mercenary mind... your actions gave us hope. That makes you a hero in the eyes of history. And you know what? It doesn't matter if you believe it. Because others do, as I believed in the heroes of my father's stories. After all, when we are gone... Stories are what remain.</small>|Battletech 2018</option> | <option><small>Am I a hero? Did I sacrifice too much at the altar of victory? Do my triumphs outweigh my mistakes? War is a clash between conscience and necessity, an ocean of chaos and bloody compromise. War shapes history, and history chooses its heroes. As for you, mercenary... You made the liberation of the Aurigan Reach a reality. Every trial I faced would have been my last without your skill on the battlefield. I still don't know if you fought for honor, or for the thrill of it. For belief in my cause, or just my money. But whether it was your noble heart or mercenary mind... your actions gave us hope. That makes you a hero in the eyes of history. And you know what? It doesn't matter if you believe it. Because others do, as I believed in the heroes of my father's stories. After all, when we are gone... Stories are what remain.</small>|Battletech 2018</option> | ||
<option>There is a wilderness we walk alone/<br>However well-companioned|Stephen V. Benét</option> | <option>There is a wilderness we walk alone/<br>However well-companioned|Stephen V. Benét</option> | ||
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<option>Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...|Eileen Chang</option> | <option>Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...|Eileen Chang</option> | ||
<option>Very few of us are what we seem.|Agatha Christie</option> | <option>Very few of us are what we seem.|Agatha Christie</option> | ||
<option>When one falls, we continue.|Clair Obscur: Expedition 33</option> | |||
<option>Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.|Arthur C. Clarke</option> | <option>Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.|Arthur C. Clarke</option> | ||
<option>I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.|Arthur C. Clarke</option> | <option>I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.|Arthur C. Clarke</option> | ||
<option>Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.|Arthur C. Clarke</option> | <option>Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.|Arthur C. Clarke</option> | ||
<option>The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge</option> | |||
<option>Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.|Christopher Columbus</option> | <option>Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.|Christopher Columbus</option> | ||
<option>For who among us has touched the foundations of this world and deemed them solid?|Control</option> | <option>For who among us has touched the foundations of this world and deemed them solid?|Control</option> | ||
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| “ | 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. | ” |
| — J. Michael Straczynski | ||
