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<option>Ad astra per aspera.<br/>To the stars through difficulties.</option> | |||
<option>Sic itur ad astra<br/>Thus one goes to the stars.</option> | |||
<option>They banished him from the Kingdom at the Center of the Earth. It seemed a harsh punishment at first. But then he saw the sky.|A Small Fiction</option> | <option>They banished him from the Kingdom at the Center of the Earth. It seemed a harsh punishment at first. But then he saw the sky.|A Small Fiction</option> | ||
<option>Mankind always yearned for the stars. We chased them, and found a new world. A home. But it wasn't long before we looked to the sky again.|A Small Fiction</option> | <option>Mankind always yearned for the stars. We chased them, and found a new world. A home. But it wasn't long before we looked to the sky again.|A Small Fiction</option> | ||
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<option>We lit the constellations with lines of fire drawn from the stars. It burned out the stars, eventually. But for a time it was beautiful.|A Small Fiction</option> | <option>We lit the constellations with lines of fire drawn from the stars. It burned out the stars, eventually. But for a time it was beautiful.|A Small Fiction</option> | ||
<option>It took years to find a new Earth; centuries to reach it. At last, we stood under blue sky. A yellow sun. And wished it wasn't so familiar.|A Small Fiction</option> | <option>It took years to find a new Earth; centuries to reach it. At last, we stood under blue sky. A yellow sun. And wished it wasn't so familiar.|A Small Fiction</option> | ||
<option>Humanity was gone, they came for what we left behind. Our ruins didn't interest them. Instead they shifted through the echoes of our minds.|A Small Fiction</option> | <option>Humanity was gone, they came for what we left behind. Our ruins didn't interest them. Instead they shifted through the echoes of our minds.|A Small Fiction</option> | ||
<option>The Earth and the Stars had a wager to figure the pull with more sway: the gravity pulling men downward, or the longing that pulled them away.|A Small Fiction</option> | <option>The Earth and the Stars had a wager to figure the pull with more sway: the gravity pulling men downward, or the longing that pulled them away.|A Small Fiction</option> | ||
<option>I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.|Douglas Adams</option> | <option>I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.|Douglas Adams</option> | ||
<option>Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.|Henry Adams</option> | |||
<option>This is the world as it is. This is where you start.|Saul D. Alinsky</option> | <option>This is the world as it is. This is where you start.|Saul D. Alinsky</option> | ||
<option>There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.|Kevin J. Anderson</option> | <option>There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.|Kevin J. Anderson</option> | ||
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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><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> | ||
<option>Message of the blowing wind<br/>Erasing memories<br/>Stars are the witnesses of our existence<br/><br/>Change is what the world awaits<br/>Could that be peace or war?<br/>The answer no one knows<br/>Trusting the break of dawn|Beyond the Bounds</option> | <option>Message of the blowing wind<br/>Erasing memories<br/>Stars are the witnesses of our existence<br/><br/>Change is what the world awaits<br/>Could that be peace or war?<br/>The answer no one knows<br/>Trusting the break of dawn|Beyond the Bounds</option> | ||
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<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>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>It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.|Joseph Conrad</option> | <option>It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.|Joseph Conrad</option> | ||
<option>...and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.|Glen Cook</option> | <option>...and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.|Glen Cook</option> | ||
<option>One day they woke me up<br/>So I could live forever...|Jonathan Coulton</option> | <option>One day they woke me up<br/>So I could live forever...|Jonathan Coulton</option> | ||
<option>When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.|Leonardo Da Vinci</option> | |||
<option>She had the unmistakable look of a spacefarer, covered in tattoos of our night sky so aliens could send her home if death finally found her.|QuietPineTrees/T.R. Darling</option> | <option>She had the unmistakable look of a spacefarer, covered in tattoos of our night sky so aliens could send her home if death finally found her.|QuietPineTrees/T.R. Darling</option> | ||
<option>Humans were drawn to that region of space. There wasn't enough Earth left to know it had been our home. The constellations just felt right.|QuietPineTrees/T.R. Darling</option> | <option>Humans were drawn to that region of space. There wasn't enough Earth left to know it had been our home. The constellations just felt right.|QuietPineTrees/T.R. Darling</option> | ||
<option>Stone and sea are deep in life. Two unalterable symbols of the world. Permanence at rest. And permanence in motion. Participants in the power that remains.|Stephen R. Donaldson</option> | <option>Stone and sea are deep in life. Two unalterable symbols of the world. Permanence at rest. And permanence in motion. Participants in the power that remains.|Stephen R. Donaldson</option> | ||
<option>Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.|Peter F. Drucker</ | <option>Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.|Peter F. Drucker</option> | ||
<option>A nomad I will remain for life in love with distant uncharted places.|Isabelle Eberhardt</option> | <option>A nomad I will remain for life in love with distant uncharted places.|Isabelle Eberhardt</option> | ||
<option>We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.|Thomas S. Eliot</option> | <option>We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.|Thomas S. Eliot</option> | ||
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<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>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>America sleeps ahead of you, its nightmares filled with quakes, storms. You'll need to find your own path.|Fallout: New Vegas</option> | |||
<option>If war doesn't change, men must change, and so must their symbols. Even if it is nothing at all, know what you follow, courier... Just as I followed you to the end.|Fallout: New Vegas</option> | |||
<option>I'm often asked, "Why would you leave Shangri-La?" But the truth is, I never left. To believe in something beyond yourself - That is true paradise. Shangri-La is within me, and within you.|Far Cry 4</option> | <option>I'm often asked, "Why would you leave Shangri-La?" But the truth is, I never left. To believe in something beyond yourself - That is true paradise. Shangri-La is within me, and within you.|Far Cry 4</option> | ||
<option>Now all I want is to find a way home, to warn Earth. Look upward, and share... the wonders I have seen.|Farscape</option> | <option>Now all I want is to find a way home, to warn Earth. Look upward, and share... the wonders I have seen.|Farscape</option> | ||
<option>If I make it back, (will they follow)? If I open a door, (are you ready)? Earth is unprepared (helpless) for the nightmares I've seen. Or should I stay, protect my home, not show them you exist. But then you'll never know | <option>If I make it back, (will they follow)? If I open a door, (are you ready)? Earth is unprepared (helpless) for the nightmares I've seen. Or should I stay, protect my home, not show them you exist. But then you'll never know...the wonders I've seen.|Farscape</option> | ||
<option>I see! It is all so clear to me now; man is but a creature that constantly aims for the open sky! However, it seems that even for a mere imitation of man, it is still possible to achieve that fantasy!|Fate/Apocrypha</option> | <option>I see! It is all so clear to me now; man is but a creature that constantly aims for the open sky! However, it seems that, even for a mere imitation of man, it is still possible to achieve that fantasy!|Fate/Apocrypha</option> | ||
<option>Heed my words: my will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny.|Fate/Zero</option> | <option>Heed my words: my will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny.|Fate/Zero</option> | ||
<option>I hereby swear that I shall be all the good in the world, and that I shall defeat all evil in the world.|Fate/Zero</option> | <option>I hereby swear that I shall be all the good in the world, and that I shall defeat all evil in the world.|Fate/Zero</option> | ||
<option>Glory lies just beyond the horizon; challenge it because it is unattainable.|Fate/Zero</option> | <option>Glory lies just beyond the horizon; challenge it because it is unattainable.|Fate/Zero</option> | ||
<option>Raise a wall against the wind; Close the gates of four directions; Come forth from the crown and follow the forked road to the Kingdom.|Fate/Zero</option> | <option>Raise a wall against the wind; Close the gates of four directions; Come forth from the crown and follow the forked road to the Kingdom.|Fate/Zero</option> | ||
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<option>The Sky is dark, the wind is cold, the night is young before it's old and grey. We will know the thrill of it all.|Bryan Freey</option> | <option>The Sky is dark, the wind is cold, the night is young before it's old and grey. We will know the thrill of it all.|Bryan Freey</option> | ||
<option><small>Some say the world will end in fire,<br/>Some say in ice.<br/>From what I’ve tasted of desire<br/>I hold with those who favor fire.<br/>But if it had to perish twice,<br/>I think I know enough of hate<br/>To say that for destruction ice<br/>Is also great<br/>And would suffice.</small>|Robert Frost</option> | <option><small>Some say the world will end in fire,<br/>Some say in ice.<br/>From what I’ve tasted of desire<br/>I hold with those who favor fire.<br/>But if it had to perish twice,<br/>I think I know enough of hate<br/>To say that for destruction ice<br/>Is also great<br/>And would suffice.</small>|Robert Frost</option> | ||
<option>These woods are lovely, dark and deep,<br/>But I have promises to keep,<br/>And miles to go before I sleep,<br/>And miles to go before I sleep.|Robert Frost</option> | |||
<Option>Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving up something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.|Fullmetal Alchemist</option> | |||
<option>The night is dark and full of terrors... but the fire burns them all away.|Game of Thrones</option> | <option>The night is dark and full of terrors... but the fire burns them all away.|Game of Thrones</option> | ||
<option>A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.|Mahatma Gandhi</option> | <option>A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.|Mahatma Gandhi</option> | ||
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<option>I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.|John Green</option> | <option>I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.|John Green</option> | ||
<option>Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.|H. Rider Haggard</option> | <option>Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.|H. Rider Haggard</option> | ||
<option>Aut inveniam viam aut faciam/I shall either find a way or make one.|Hannibal</option> | |||
<option>Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.|Robert A. Heinlein</option> | <option>Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.|Robert A. Heinlein</option> | ||
<option>There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.|Robert A. Heinlein</option> | <option>There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.|Robert A. Heinlein</option> | ||
<option><small>There are things we don't do. From this moment on, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us all live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.</small>|John G. Hemry</option> | <option><small>There are things we don't do. From this moment on, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us all live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.</small>|John G. Hemry</option> | ||
<option>Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.|John G Hemry</option> | <option>Beware that which thinks but does not live.|John G. Hemry</option> | ||
<option>Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.|John G. Hemry</option> | |||
<option>Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.|Frank Herbert</option> | <option>Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.|Frank Herbert</option> | ||
<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. (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> | ||
<option>As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.|Yasunari Kawabata</option> | |||
<option>When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.|Tuli Kupferberg</option> | <option>When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.|Tuli Kupferberg</option> | ||
<option>The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.|Neil LaBute</option> | <option>The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.|Neil LaBute</option> | ||
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<option>The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option> | <option>The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option> | ||
<option>I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option> | <option>I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.|Howard P. Lovecraft</option> | ||
<option>To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late, for how can a man die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods.|Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay</option> | |||
<option>Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.|Magic: The Gathering</option> | <option>Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.|Magic: The Gathering</option> | ||
<option><small>Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.<br/>Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.<br/>Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.<br/>Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.<br/>Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every truth holds the seed of betrayal.</small>|Magic: The Gathering</option> | <option><small>Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.<br/>Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.<br/>Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.<br/>Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.<br/>Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every truth holds the seed of betrayal.</small>|Magic: The Gathering</option> | ||
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<option>Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,<br>And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?|Christopher Marlowe</option> | <option>Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,<br>And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?|Christopher Marlowe</option> | ||
<option>Day and night I always dream with open eyes.|José Martí</option> | <option>Day and night I always dream with open eyes.|José Martí</option> | ||
<option>The desert wind now<br/>Wails with ancient shades:<br/>The once-proud masters<br/>Of salted Carthage<br/><br/>"Had we won," they howl,<br/>"How magnanimous we'd be.<br/>Let Rome remain, we'd say,<br/>It can't compete<br/>With Carthage.<br/>With Carthage,<br/>Now gone."<br/><br/>And there,<br/>In the desert,<Br/>They lie.|Microsff</option> | |||
<option>The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.|Frank Miller</option> | <option>The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.|Frank Miller</option> | ||
<option>To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.|Miyamoto Musashi</option> | <option>To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.|Miyamoto Musashi</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>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> | ||
<option>Not all who wander are lost.|John R.R. Tolkein</option> | <option>Not all who wander are lost.|John R.R. Tolkein</option> | ||
<option>That is the purpose of stories, that no matter where we walk in the world, we walk twice: once in the warm sunshine, and once in the silvery light of every tale we have ever heard, seeing each thing as it is, and also as it was.|Catherynne M. Valente</option> | |||
<option>Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.|Jules Verne</option> | <option>Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.|Jules Verne</option> | ||
<option>Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. |Voltaire</option> | <option>Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.|Voltaire</option> | ||
<option>For he did not know, that beyond the lake he called home,<br/>There lied a deeper, and darker ocean green.<br/>Where waves are both wilder and more serene.<br/>To its ports I've been,<br/>To its ports I've been.|Alan Wake</option> | <option>For he did not know, that beyond the lake he called home,<br/>There lied a deeper, and darker ocean green.<br/>Where waves are both wilder and more serene.<br/>To its ports I've been,<br/>To its ports I've been.|Alan Wake</option> | ||
<option>This kingdom shall fall, and from the ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of the world.|Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos</option> | <option>This kingdom shall fall, and from the ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of the world.|Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos</option> | ||
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<option>It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.|Eiji Yoshikawa</option> | <option>It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.|Eiji Yoshikawa</option> | ||
<option>The Guard dies, but it does not surrender!|Pierre Cambronne or Claude-Étienne Michel</option> | <option>The Guard dies, but it does not surrender!|Pierre Cambronne or Claude-Étienne Michel</option> | ||
<option>Do not mock those afraid of the dark. Teach them that the shadows do not bite; they hug and they comfort when nothing else will. Teach them to be as fearless as you are.|thebratfangs</option> | |||
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