Editing Midnight: North & South Game Inspiration Quotes

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*  ''"There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true."'' '''--Sir Winston Churchill'''
*  ''"I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will."''  '''--Joseph Stalin'''
*  ''"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."''  '''--Plato'''
*  ''"Sometimes you have to do things that you hate so you can survive to fight on another day."''  '''--Number Six''' (Tricia Helfer) on Battlestar Galactica
*  ''"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."''  '''--Patrick Henry'''(1736 - 1799), (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
*  ''"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence."''  '''--William Shakespeare''' (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 1 scene 3
*  ''"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."'' '''--Friedrich Nietzsche'''


'''the orcs'''
*  ''"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."'' '''- George S Patton'''
*  ''"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."'' '''- George S Patton'''
*  ''"Orcs love to fight. All real orcs love the sting of battle."'' '''- George S Patton''' (changed "Americans" to "orcs").
*  ''"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more."'' '''- GSP'''



'''Some for the Dorn, from the same man'''
*  ''"Better to fight for something than live for nothing".'' '''- George S Patton'''
*  ''"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank our forefathers that such men lived."'' '''- George S Patton''' (changed "God" to "our forefathers").



'''One for the hermetic channeler or other lore-boy'''
*  ''"There is no darkness but ignorance."'' '''- William Shakespeare'''



'''And one for the slightly more peaceful resistance fighter'''
*  ''"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."'' '''- Martin Luther King, Jr.'''



'''The visionary resistance fighter'''
*  ''"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all."'' '''- Richard Wright'''



'''Something for the urban game'''
*  ''"In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time."'' '''- W. Somerset Maugham'''



'''Something for the redeemed hero'''
*  ''"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."'' '''- Hellen Keller'''



'''Justification of the actions of the antihero'''
*  ''"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."'' '''- Carl Jung'''



'''The dogma of the collaborator channeler'''
*  ''"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."'' '''- Carl Jung'''



'''And one for the late Sahi in Sunulael'''
*  ''"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."'' '''- Frank Herbert'''



'''How about something for the fatalist'''
*  ''"And the darkness of the night is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures."'' '''- William H Gass''' (changed "our bedroom" to "the night".



'''One for the traitor prince'''
*  ''"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."'' '''- Jean Genet'''



'''Dogma of the fanatic legate'''
*  ''"A man can no more diminish Izrador's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the darkness by scribbling the word, 'light' on the walls of his cell."'' '''- C. S. Lewis''' (changed "God" to "Izrador", "sun" to "darkness" and "darkness" to "light".)



'''For the Han-Solo'ish good-bye ("Then I'll see you in hell!")'''
*  ''"See you in the darkness."'' '''- Gary Gilmore'''



'''Gothy one, which I nevertheless liked'''
*  ''"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."'' '''- Tom Wolfe'''



'''Out-of game inspiration for the demoralized player'''
*  ''"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."'' '''- Yousuf Karsh'''






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