Editing Game Inspiration Quotes (section)

==USED IN GAME==
* ''A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential--there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.''  -- '''Mark Twain'''
* '' Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ''      '''-- Juvenal's Satire''' VI, Against Women.  <br> (Tranlation:  Who watches the Watchmen?  The original reads:  I hear all this time the advisce of my old friends - Put on a lock and keep your wife guarded behind doors. Yes, but who will watch the watchmen? The wife arranges accordingly and begins sleeping with them.)
* '' There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. ''      '''-- Genesis 6:4'''
* '' Tantaene animis caelestibus irae? ''    '''-- Virgil'''. The Aeneid: Book I, Line II.
* '' Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ''     '''-- Lord Acton'''.
* '' What we do not understand we fear, what we fear we destroy. ''     '''-- Anon'''.
* '' When people have impunity, they act like it.  ''     '''-- Anon'''.
* '' Per Ardua, Ad Astra. ''  (Translation: Through rough ways, to the stars.)     '''-- State motto of Kansas''', varient of RAF motto.
* ''The winter here is cold and bitter, chilled to the bone. Haven’t seen the sun for weeks. To long - to far from home. Feel like I’m sinking and claw for solid ground. Pulled down by the undertow. So it’s better this way, having seen this place before. Where everything we say and do, hurts us all the more. Its just that we stayed away, too long. Pulled down by the undertow. Never thought I could feel so low. Oh darkness I feel like letting go. With all of my strength and all of my courage, come and lift me from this place... Full of grace. Full of grace.''      '''-- Sarah McLachlan'''.  (paraphrased from ''Full of Grace'')
* ''Well, my children <br>  When you meet your friends again <br> The Earth will tremble''     '''-- Cheyenna Ghost Dance Chant'''
* ''Fire is the test of gold, adversity the test of heroes.''     '''-- Seneca''', On Providence
*  ''Of all the things i've believed in, I just wanna get it over with. Tears form behind my eyes, But I do not cry.  Counting the days that pass me by.  Ive been searching deep down in my soul, Words that Im hearing Are starting to get old. Feels like Im starting all over again, The last three years were just pretend.  <br> But its not right...  And it hurts to want everything, And nothing at the same time, I want whats yours and i whats mine. And when all the stars fall I will lie awake, You're my shooting star.'' -- '''Michelle Branch'''.  (paraphrased from ''Goodbye to You'')
*  ''Here we are. Born to be kings.  We're the princes of the universe.  Here we belong. Fighting to survive.  In a world with the darkest powers.  And here we are. We're the princes of the universe. ... We've come to be the rulers of your world.  ...  I have no rival. No man can be my equal. ...  Fighting and free. Got your world in my hand. I'm here for your love and I'll make my stand.  ...  No man could understand. My power is in my own hand.  ...  Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. People talk about you.  People say you've had your day.  I'm a man that will go far.  Fly the moon and reach for the stars.  ...  Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Watch this man fly.  ...  We were born to be princes of the universe.''  '''-- Queen'''.  (paraphraded from ''Princes of the Universe'')
*  ''One step at a time don't be living on the line, i don't need a friend i got morbid on the mind.  Sunshine in my brain making everyone complain, radio in the heart don't be being so strange.  I think i'm losing it baby where you been, everybody says that you're moving again, i don't wanna be right baby every single night, i could tell you a thing about taking your time.  It's making me nervous yeah.''  '''-- Brad Sucks'''.  (Making Me Nervous)
*  ''Quod sum eris''  '''-- anon'''.  <br> (Translation:  I am what you will be)
* ''It's only when the Empire's breaking that you see the teeth.''  '''-- Al Stewart''', "Rain Barrel," 2004
*  ''The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstacy at your feet.''  -- '''Franz Kafka''' AD 1917 (The Great Wall of China, Reflections)
*  ''The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.''  -- '''William H. Borah'''
* ''No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.'' -- '''Edward Abbey'''
* ''One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.''  -- '''Nikola Tesla'''
* ''...Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win...!'' -- '''Charles Dickens'''	(David Copperfield)
* ''Let me arise and open the gate, to breathe the wild warm air of the heath, And to let in Love, and to let out Hate, And anger at living and scorn of Fate, To let in Life, and to let out Death.''  --  '''Violet Fane'''
*  ''If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.''  -- '''George Aiken'''
* ''People shouldn't be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of its people.''  -- '''V''' for Vendetta
*  ''Once one dismisses the rest of all possible worlds, one finds that this is the best of all possible worlds.''  -- '''Leonard Bernstein''', Candide
* ''All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing''    '''-- Edmund Burke'''.
* ''Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.''    '''-- Pliny the Elder'''.
* ''Since he has cultivated his soul, already richer than any other man's, he thereby reaches the unknown, and, even if, insane in the end, he should lose everyone shred of understanding gained so laboriously, he will have had his visions!  He may perish in his leap into those innumberable, unnameable things, there will follow other terrible workers.  They will begin at the horizons where he fell.''     -- '''Arthur Rimbaud'''


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