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* ''"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''' | * ''"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''' | ||
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* ''"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."'' '''- George S Patton''' | * ''"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''' | * ''"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."'' '''- George S Patton''' | ||
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* ''"Better to fight for something than live for nothing".'' '''- George S Patton''' | * ''"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"). | * ''"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=== | |
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* ''"There is no darkness but ignorance."'' '''- William Shakespeare''' | * ''"There is no darkness but ignorance."'' '''- William Shakespeare''' | ||
| − | + | ===And one for the slightly more peaceful resistance fighter=== | |
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* ''"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."'' '''- Martin Luther King, Jr.''' | * ''"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."'' '''- Martin Luther King, Jr.''' | ||
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* ''"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''' | * ''"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''' | ||
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* ''"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''' | * ''"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=== | |
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* ''"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''' | * ''"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''' | ||
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* ''"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."'' '''- Carl Jung''' | * ''"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."'' '''- Carl Jung''' | ||
| − | + | ===The dogma of the collaborator channeler=== | |
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* ''"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."'' '''- Carl Jung''' | * ''"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=== | |
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* ''"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."'' '''- Frank Herbert''' | * ''"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."'' '''- Frank Herbert''' | ||
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* ''"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". | * ''"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". | ||
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* ''"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."'' '''- Jean Genet''' | * ''"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."'' '''- Jean Genet''' | ||
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* ''"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".) | * ''"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!)=== | |
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* ''"See you in the darkness."'' '''- Gary Gilmore''' | * ''"See you in the darkness."'' '''- Gary Gilmore''' | ||
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* ''"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''' | * ''"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''' | ||
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* ''"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."'' '''- Yousuf Karsh''' | * ''"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."'' '''- Yousuf Karsh''' | ||
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