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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> | ||
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<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><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>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> | ||
<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> | ||
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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>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>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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| “ | 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 | ||
