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	~~delsitou~~
	* ''Time is our enamy, it allways has been, even in the begining. Time we lost, Time that has stolen from us. Time to fix things that went wrong, time to save friends. Its allways time thats aginst us. And I want it back! Can you do that? Unless you can dont dare call yourself 'Godlike' to me. <long pause> "Hey do you remember that time we died? '' -- '''Vice President Jack Bennett Kennedy''', Alternate timeline, Addressing Survivers Reunion.		* ''Time is our enamy, it allways has been, even in the begining. Time we lost, Time that has stolen from us. Time to fix things that went wrong, time to save friends. Its allways time thats aginst us. And I want it back! Can you do that? Unless you can dont dare call yourself 'Godlike' to me. <long pause> "Hey do you remember that time we died? '' -- '''Vice President Jack Bennett Kennedy''', Alternate timeline, Addressing Survivers Reunion.

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	* '' When people have impunity, they act like it. '' '''-- 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.		* '' 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. ~~Havenât~~ seen the sun for weeks. To long - to far from home. Feel like ~~Iâm~~ sinking and claw for solid ground. Pulled down by the undertow. So ~~itâs~~ 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'')		* ''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'''		* ''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		* ''Fire is the test of gold, adversity the test of heroes.'' '''-- Seneca''', On Providence

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			delsitou
	* ''Time is our enamy, it allways has been, even in the begining. Time we lost, Time that has stolen from us. Time to fix things that went wrong, time to save friends. Its allways time thats aginst us. And I want it back! Can you do that? Unless you can dont dare call yourself 'Godlike' to me. <long pause> "Hey do you remember that time we died? '' -- '''Vice President Jack Bennett Kennedy''', Alternate timeline, Addressing Survivers Reunion.		* ''Time is our enamy, it allways has been, even in the begining. Time we lost, Time that has stolen from us. Time to fix things that went wrong, time to save friends. Its allways time thats aginst us. And I want it back! Can you do that? Unless you can dont dare call yourself 'Godlike' to me. <long pause> "Hey do you remember that time we died? '' -- '''Vice President Jack Bennett Kennedy''', Alternate timeline, Addressing Survivers Reunion.

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	* '' When people have impunity, they act like it. '' '''-- 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.		* '' 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'')		* ''The winter here is cold and bitter, chilled to the bone. Havenât seen the sun for weeks. To long - to far from home. Feel like Iâm sinking and claw for solid ground. Pulled down by the undertow. So itâs 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'''		* ''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		* ''Fire is the test of gold, adversity the test of heroes.'' '''-- Seneca''', On Providence

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	==USED IN GAME==		==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.)		* '' 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'''		* '' 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'''

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			* ''Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.'' -- '''Oscar Wilde'''
	* ''It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.'' --'''John Burroughs'''		* ''It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.'' --'''John Burroughs'''
	* ''The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequence.'' --'''Winston Churchill'''		* ''The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequence.'' --'''Winston Churchill'''

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			* ''It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.'' --'''John Burroughs'''
	* ''The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequence.'' --'''Winston Churchill'''		* ''The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequence.'' --'''Winston Churchill'''
	* ''Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.'' -- '''Robert Heinlein'''		* ''Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.'' -- '''Robert Heinlein'''

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			* ''The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequence.'' --'''Winston Churchill'''
	* ''Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.'' -- '''Robert Heinlein'''		* ''Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.'' -- '''Robert Heinlein'''
	* ''Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.'' --'''CVR Thompson'''		* ''Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.'' --'''CVR Thompson'''

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			* ''Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.'' -- '''Robert Heinlein'''
	* ''Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.'' --'''CVR Thompson'''		* ''Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.'' --'''CVR Thompson'''
	* ''How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!'' --'''Isaiah 14:12'''		* ''How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!'' --'''Isaiah 14:12'''

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			* ''Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.'' --'''CVR Thompson'''
	* ''How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!'' --'''Isaiah 14:12'''		* ''How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!'' --'''Isaiah 14:12'''
	* ''So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.'' --'''Jeremiah 50:39'''		* ''So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.'' --'''Jeremiah 50:39'''

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	* ''How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!'' --'''Isaiah 14:12'''		* ''How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!'' --'''Isaiah 14:12'''
	* ''So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.'' --'''Jeremiah 50:39'''		* ''So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.'' --'''Jeremiah 50:39'''
			* ''Their cobwebs are useless for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways. The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks in them will know peace.'' --'''Isaiah 59:6-8'''
			* ''Therefore, this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom for your fellow countrymen. So I now proclaim 'freedom' for you, declares the LORD - 'freedom' to fall by the sword, plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth. The men who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.'' --'''Jeremiah 34:17-18'''
			* ''At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, Because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, And revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.'' --'''Matthew 11:25-26'''
			* ''Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.'' --'''Acts 20:28-29'''
			* ''And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, and said, Truly I say to you, unless you become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, It would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, And to be drowned in the depth of the sea.'' --'''Matthew 18:2-6'''
			* ''Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.'' --'''Revelation 18:21'''
	* ''nought might armour avail, but that Caliburn would carve their souls from out them with their blood.'' -- '''Geoffrey of Monmouth'''		* ''nought might armour avail, but that Caliburn would carve their souls from out them with their blood.'' -- '''Geoffrey of Monmouth'''
	* ''The more things change, the more they remain... insane.'' --'''Michael Fry and T. Lewis'''		* ''The more things change, the more they remain... insane.'' --'''Michael Fry and T. Lewis'''

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			* ''How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!'' --'''Isaiah 14:12'''
			* ''So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.'' --'''Jeremiah 50:39'''
	* ''nought might armour avail, but that Caliburn would carve their souls from out them with their blood.'' -- '''Geoffrey of Monmouth'''		* ''nought might armour avail, but that Caliburn would carve their souls from out them with their blood.'' -- '''Geoffrey of Monmouth'''
	* ''The more things change, the more they remain... insane.'' --'''Michael Fry and T. Lewis'''		* ''The more things change, the more they remain... insane.'' --'''Michael Fry and T. Lewis'''