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*  ''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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* ''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'''
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*  ''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'''
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*  ''It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.''  --'''John Burroughs'''
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* ''People shouldn't be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of its people.''  -- '''V''' for Vendetta
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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'''
 
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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'''
 
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*  ''Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.''  --'''CVR Thompson'''
 
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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'''
 
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*  ''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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*  ''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'''
 
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*  ''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'''
 
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*  ''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'''
 
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* ''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'''
 
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*  ''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'''
 
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*  ''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'''
 
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*  ''nought might armour avail, but that Caliburn would carve their souls from out them with their blood.''  -- '''Geoffrey of Monmouth'''
 
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*  ''The more things change, the more they remain... insane.''  --'''Michael Fry and T. Lewis'''
 
 
*  ''I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.'' -- '''Virginia Woolf'''
 
*  ''I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.'' -- '''Virginia Woolf'''
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*  ''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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*  ''Once one dismisses the rest of all possible worlds, one finds that this is the best of all possible worlds.''  -- '''Leonard Bernstein''', Candide
 
* '' the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.  ''    '''-- Charles Bandelaire'''.
 
* '' the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.  ''    '''-- Charles Bandelaire'''.
 
* '' With great power, there must also come great responsibility. ''    -- '''Ben Parker''', AMAZING FANTASY #15, August, 1962  (aka. Stan "the Man" Lee)
 
* '' With great power, there must also come great responsibility. ''    -- '''Ben Parker''', AMAZING FANTASY #15, August, 1962  (aka. Stan "the Man" Lee)
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* ''All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing''    '''-- Edmund Burke'''.
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* ''Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.''    '''-- Pliny the Elder'''.
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* ''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'''
 
*  ''What has happened here was caused by a force which, up until a few days ago, was entirely beyond the scope of man's imagination.  ... a smoldering memorial to the unknown, which at this moment still prevails and could, at any time, lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world''  -- opening narration,    '''GODZILLA: King of the Monsters'''
 
*  ''What has happened here was caused by a force which, up until a few days ago, was entirely beyond the scope of man's imagination.  ... a smoldering memorial to the unknown, which at this moment still prevails and could, at any time, lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world''  -- opening narration,    '''GODZILLA: King of the Monsters'''
 
* ''It is true that, whether favored by the stars or by nature, some men are born endowed with such graces that they seem not to have been born, but to have been fashioned by the hands of god... ''    '''-- Baldassare Castiglione''', the Courtier
 
* ''It is true that, whether favored by the stars or by nature, some men are born endowed with such graces that they seem not to have been born, but to have been fashioned by the hands of god... ''    '''-- Baldassare Castiglione''', the Courtier
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* ''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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* ''...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)
 
* ''...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'''
 
* ''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'''
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*  ''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'''
 
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* ''People shouldn't be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of its people.''  -- '''V''' for Vendetta
 
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*  ''Once one dismisses the rest of all possible worlds, one finds that this is the best of all possible worlds.''  -- '''Leonard Bernstein''', Candide
 
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* ''All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing''    '''-- Edmund Burke'''.
 
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* ''Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.''    '''-- Pliny the Elder'''.
 
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* ''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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