Great CIV QUOTES Wanted!

MarkG · May 21, 2002, 20:32

please post your favorite civ2-3/smac/ctp1-2 related quote in the following format to have it added in our thank-you-for-posting screens

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After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true. 
            -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7
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the % is necessary. do not use " and always have the "owner" of the quote in a new line

i'm pretty sure we have some similar threads in this forum or it's archive. if someone can track them down and post the quotes in the above format, it would be great

DarkCloud · May 21, 2002, 22:54

Does anyone rember the Scientist's quote that our science is so great that... or so bad that...
If you do- I think It would be a good quote for the page loading screens

orange · May 22, 2002, 00:00

We are the most enlightened nation in the world! I salute you!

orange · May 22, 2002, 00:03

or perhaps you mean "even the cobblestoned streets possess more knowledge than we do, sire. Build more science improvements!"

or something along those lines? (i forget the exact quote)

H Tower · May 22, 2002, 01:37

Case Closed

--Ming. Every day of the year since ???

Mr. President · May 22, 2002, 03:18

What goes up - better doggone well stay up!
-- Morgan Gravitonics, company slogan

MarkG · May 22, 2002, 03:31

the %! dont forget the %!!

Ari Rahikkala · May 22, 2002, 04:42

You can just add it yourself

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Spice melange is worms! WORMS!!!
-- LightEning
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It ain't over 'till the fat lady sinks.
-- The Inquisition (LightEning)
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( these might not be Civ quotes, but these are Apolytoner quotes, which is even better!)

MarkG · May 22, 2002, 04:44

the less work i have to do, the faster they will be included

no " please, and i think it would be better to use quotes of people a bit more known than yourself

Gramphos · May 22, 2002, 06:02

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Originally posted by MarkG
no " please

Would \" or &quote; work?

MarkG · May 22, 2002, 06:29

it's not that it wouldnt work but that i dont want them to appear

Ari Rahikkala · May 22, 2002, 06:36

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Originally posted by MarkG
no " please, and i think it would be better to use quotes of people a bit more known than yourself

But... other people wouldn't have posted those quotes, and then they wouldn't have been able to enrich anyone's life. Now at least I will get some publicity

(with very, very good luck, of course...).

Stefu · May 22, 2002, 07:10

"I have leadership abilities of a small cantaloupe"
- Stefu

MarkG · May 22, 2002, 07:14

any quote that doesnt follow the format explained in the first post will NOT be included

Ari Rahikkala · May 22, 2002, 08:00

Mine do, now...

aaglo · May 22, 2002, 08:42

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It is not an optical illusion, it only looks like that.
            -- Aaglo 
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FrustratedPoet · May 22, 2002, 08:48

nice one aaglo. That's just gotta go in.

aaglo · May 22, 2002, 10:11

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I'm not a complete idiot; some parts are still missing
            -- Aaglo
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aaglo · May 22, 2002, 10:16

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         Work is the curse of the drinking class.
              -- Oscar Wilde
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Solver · May 22, 2002, 10:42

Your betrayal of the Americans is legendary
-- Each time I played Civ 2.
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Markos, now, what about the huge list of quotes I sent you two or three months ago? It has some good miscellaneous quotes, which I think is the way to go, and a few Apolytoner quotes. If you say it's good, I can send you a HUGE another heap. Eh?

MarkG · May 22, 2002, 10:58

i dont recall it solver, please resend

Solver · May 22, 2002, 11:00

Sent. See if it's suitable, if yes, I might expand both the general and Apolyton quote sections.

FrustratedPoet · May 22, 2002, 11:21

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Originally posted by aaglo

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         Work is the curse of the drinking class.
              -- Oscar Wilde
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We could probably come up with about 1000 quotes from Oscar Wilde alone ...

how about:

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         All women grow up to be just like their mothers, 
that is their tragedy. No man does, that is his.
              -- Oscar Wilde
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or something like that ... it's been a while since I read that play.

or the classic:

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         The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.
Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. 
              -- Oscar Wilde
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Scouse Gits · May 22, 2002, 11:38

Solver - congratulations - you just made Emperor!

SG[1]

Solver · May 22, 2002, 11:42

Did I? I had 2950 posts three days ago... umm... some days I make 40 posts a day, though

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H Tower · May 22, 2002, 12:44

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Visit me at Apolyton.net.
-- Uknown, but scribbled on a bathroom wall in Racine, Wisconsin
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or how about this one?

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Can I please have my posts back?
-- Everyone
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or this one?

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Answer your private messages Markos!
-- Everyone
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Why was my thread deleted?
-- just about everybody
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Playa del Carmen · May 22, 2002, 13:20

This one is kind of long, but it made me think of Civ 3...

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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

--Oscar Wilde
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

--Ezra Pound
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Chowlett · May 22, 2002, 17:44

Courtesy of my diary...

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant, Reader's Digest, 1972
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with the world.
Cesare Pavese, Italian Novelist
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm, British author
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke, Nature, 1990
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Immortal Wombat · May 22, 2002, 18:38

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
--Sir Winston Churchill, November 11, 1937 
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Sir Winston Churchill
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
--Sir Winston Churchill
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See a pattern?

Civ ones:

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.
--Sigmund Freud
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
--Will Durant
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You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way.
--Will Rogers
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I just like this one:

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between.
--Oscar Wilde
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Locutus · May 22, 2002, 20:28

Repost from the other thread:

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The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
            -- Mark Twain
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
            -- Mark Twain
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
            -- Mark Twain
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
            -- Mark Twain
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Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
            -- Winston Chruchill
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Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
            -- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition No. 76
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
            -- Arnold J. Toynbee
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
            -- Timothy Leary
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
            -- Will Rogers
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
            -- Will Rogers
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All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
            -- Kenneth Clark
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