The Ultimate Quotable Quote Source

[Merlins Boon]

I love a great quote. There's nothing that gets me all tingly like a few inspirational words. So I've decided to begin a collection of my favorite quotes, which is a lot, since I really can't just pick a few of them. I'll post one and a time and everyone else is welcome to post up quotes as well. I'd prefer to see quotes from sources other than yourself, but if you feel like your words are inspirational, then by god put them up here. Just make sure that, when you put them up, you try to put down the quote exactly as it was originally stated and make sure you give credit to the person who said it. If it's unknown, simply put unknown.

So, to start

"Who dares, wins." - Motto of the British Secret Air Service

 

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"Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly -- why, they are simply doomed."

ACHEM DRO'HM, Andromeda

 

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"Here's everything I know about war: somebody wins, somebody loses, and nothing is ever the same again."

ADMIRAL CONSTANZA STARK, Andromeda

 

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"We say atoms are bound by weak attractors. Why not admit the truth: the Universe is held together by love."

MICHIO VON KERR, Wayist physicist, Andromeda

 

[Angeline]

Here's one I love

"Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn’t help the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking down so someone won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Nelson Mandela

 

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"The truest measure of a society is how it treats its elderly, its pets, and its prisoners."

Keeper of the Way Vision of Faith VII, Andromeda

 

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"Democracy may only be a few steps removed from anarchy, but at least it's not as loud."

CROWNED IN STARLIGHT, Than Hegemon, Andromeda

 

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"With only two parents and a handful of siblings, is it any wonder that humans are so obsessed with finding love?"

Fragment of a Than-Thre-Kull anthropology text, Andromeda

 

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"One head cannot contain all wisdom."

"The Olduvai Cycle"

Systems University Archives, Andromeda

 

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"Only those born guilty Recognize
Innocence for what it Is:

The rarest thing in the Universe,
And the most Precious."

THE ANOINTED, The Finder of The Way
C.Y. 9799, Andromeda

 

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"If we do not live another day,
say this over our byre:
They died like High Guard Lancers
with their faces to the fire."

-Regimental Hymn of the 11th Imperial Lancers, CY 4233, Andromeda

 

[Angeline]

And another. . .

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

 

[Merlins Boon]

With their minuscule families, humans are often
forced to rely on a "state" or a "nation" for support.
They might as well dig their hives in sand.

- Fragment of a Than-thre-kull anthropology text,
approx CY 7956, Andromeda

 

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"Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Which is a problem.
If you're powerless."

--Drago Museveni, "Manifesto" CY 8433, Andromeda

 

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Here is the price of freedom:
Your every drop of courage,
ounce of pain, pint of blood.
Paid in advance.

--Sebastian Lee, "The Rising Tide" AFC 271, Andromeda

 

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"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."

--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR, "Last of The Lancers" --
AFC 32, Andromeda

 

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"To venture in the Fair Unknown,
I must enter as I leave:
A traveler, alone."

Anonymous, CY 1917, Andromeda

 

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"A soldier's first battlefield
is always his own mind."

Admiral Constanza Stark
CY 9762, Andromeda

 

[Merlins Boon]

Ok, no more Andromeda quotes.

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me -
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

 

[Merlins Boon]

An oldie but a goodie

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain uninalienable rights, which among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

The Decleration of Independence

 

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"No body asked for your simple rules. Why don't you let people screw up their own lives? It belongs to them. I'd rather see the world go to Hell than hand it over to a self-important little punk like you."

A.T., Crossworlds

 

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"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."

Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

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"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this has happened."

"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you."

- Frodo Baggins and Gandalf the Gray, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."

-Haile Selassie

 

[Merlins Boon]

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."

-Mark Twain