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<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>...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> | ||
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<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> | ||
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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>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>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>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>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> | ||
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<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>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> | ||
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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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