Great CIV QUOTES Wanted!

[MikeH]

"I'm not young enough to know everything." Oscar Wilde.

[Venom]

How fit is Hasselbaink?

[Immortal Wombat]

He's ****ing... a man! 
   --The Shaker
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[tniem]

MikeH, I liked the quote, figure I would put it in Markos requested style.

I'm not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde.
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[St Leo]

"Space will be colonised - although possibly not by us [Americans]. If we lose our nerve, there are plenty of other people on this planet. The construction crews may speak Chinese or Russian - Swahili or Portuguese. It does not take "good old American know-how" to build a city in space. The Laws of Physics work just as well for others as they do for us."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." 
-- Diderot
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"Hell is other people."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Programming in Basic causes brain damage."
-- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
--Charles Darwin
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[DarkCloud]

"You know, that's a Repetitive Redundancy."
--JR Fleming
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[DarkCloud]

"There is no individual thing in nature, than which there is not another more powerful and strong. Whatsoever thing be given, there is something stronger whereby it can be destroyed."
- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
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"The natural laws formulated mathematically in quantum theory no longer deal with the elementary particles themselves but with our knowledge of them."
- Werner Heisenberg
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"It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion."
- Tertullius (160-240)
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"The distincition between past, present and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one."
-Albert Einstein
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[Chowlett]

Don't really know why I'm suggesting this.

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
-- Mnemomic for the first 15 digits of Pi
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[Vlad Antlerkov]

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True friends stab you in the front.

            -- Oscar Wilde

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[H Tower]

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Cherryade please.
-- Provost Harrison
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[Sirotnikov]

Let's go bonk some heads!
-- Civ2 Military Advisor
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In the beginning, the Earth was without form, and void.
But the Sun shone upon the sleeping Earth and deep inside the brittle crust massive forces waited to be unleashed.
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The fruits of intelligence were many: fire, tools, and weapons, the hunt, farming, and the sharing of food, the family, the village, and the tribe. 
Now it required but one more ingredient: a great Leader to unite the quarreling tribes to harness the power of the land to build a legacy that would stand the test of time:

a CIVILIZATION!

-- Civilization startup screen
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Lions Defeat Gladiators 9-0!
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Mayor fiddles as city burns!
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Earth is round Columbus claims!
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Latest Olympic Games results!
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Attila sorry for misunderstanding.
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Cleopatra's beauty secrets! Section A3.
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Iliad tops bestseller list, see BOOKS.
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Crusade ends in disaster, Press blamed.
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Renaissance imminent, scholars claim.
-- Civilization Newspaper
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We Love King? Latest poll results.
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Rain, Rain, more Rain! Noah predicts.
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Great Wall damaged, Vandals suspected.
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Nostradamus fortells future: Trouble ahead!
-- Civilization Newspaper
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Marie Antionette's diet secret: Cake!
-- Civilization Newspaper
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A usurper claims that you are not the rightful king! To prove you are of royal birth you must answer this question:
-- Civilization
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In the year 2000 voyagers from the planet Earth set forth on a journey of cosmic exploration. A spaceship populated by 1,000,000 American colonists successfully bridged the vast distances between the stars. Arriving in at the star system Alpha Centauri, these intrepid pioneers began the colonization of a new world. The Americans, your people have fulfilled the dream of countless generations. Your name will live forever in the annals of CIVILIZATION!
-- Civilization
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Plague in Rome Scores perish! Citizens demand AQUEDUCT.
-- Civilization Advisor
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Floods strike Rome! Houses washed away. Citizens demand CITY WALLS.
-- Civilization Advisor
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Volcano erupts near Rome! Citizens flee in terror. Citizens demand TEMPLE.
-- Civilization Advisor
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Famine strikes Rome! Scores perish.
-- Civilization Advisor
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Fire sweeps through Rome! 10,000 destroyed. Citizens demand AQUEDUCT.
-- Civilization Advisor
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Pirates plunder Rome! Production halted, Food Stolen. Citizens demand BARRACKS.
-- Civilization Advisor
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Are you sure you want a REVOLUTION?
-- Civilization Advisor
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Sire, our population can not support so many military units. We must eliminate some of our old units before we build new ones.
-- Civilization Advisor
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Sire, our bureaucrats can not administer so many cities. We must remove some of our old cities before we build new ones.
-- Civilization Advisor

[Ecthy]

Ah... those were the days...

[Straybow]

My understanding (Hah!) is that the one quote means "Again I say, [the] Carthage [-inians] must be destroyed!" Cato urged daily from the Senate floor for months or years.

I believe the other says, "Carthage is destroyed!" Somewhat different. I've seen it written another way, too. Can't find it, though.

[Gramphos]

No Comment

-- Any Firaxian

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[MikeH]

Originally posted by tniem
MikeH, I liked the quote, figure I would put it in Markos requested style.

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I'm not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde. %

Thanks, if I'd read the thread I'd probably have known he wanted them like that.

[Ecthy]

Carthago delenda est?

Something like that it must be.

[orange]

In the future...packages will be sent to distant lands by beams of light - Howie Day

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[Immortal Wombat]

Nice bloke Cato. Silly hair

[Marquis de Sodaq]

There is no fortress impenetrable to an ass laden with gold.
--Philip of Macedon
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[alva]

maybe someone could put them togheter in a somewhat
more reader friendly list?

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you can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all the of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

-- W. Churchill

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[Sirotnikov]

MarkG, I wrote a big ass post with dozens of quotes from the original Civilization, but I didn't notice you adding it...

Are we no longer a civilization site?

[MarkG]

People love to assume things about other people's amount of free time and the way it is spent
-- MarkG
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[Imran Siddiqui]

How fit is Hasselbank?
He is ****ing a man!
- Your Friends at Counterglow
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[MarkG]

apolyton quote database updated
total: 99 strings
longest string: 546 bytes
shortest string: 39 bytes

[DarkCloud]

Good Work



The Time Is Now
- Trite Phrase Used by many
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Think Outside the Computer Box
- Trite Phrase updated for the Computer Age
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[Straybow]

alva848, I believe that quote predates Sir Winston's birth by a few years and originates on another continent:

You can fool some of the people all that time, and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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[DarkCloud]

Immanual Kant but Kubla Kahn

Hmm... I received a quote much like this after I posted- and it didn't make any sense at all- can someone enlighten me to what it means?

[J Bytheway]

I would guess that it's a play on two peoples names - i.e. its double meaning is that Immanual can't but Kubla can. But I don't know.

[SITS]

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'Oh, it's sick
Ahh it's sad,
I think you're something
I can't have'

-- 'Something I can't Have' - The Jesus and Mary Chain
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'Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but [the] fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws--always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we
stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good"--not because [the] speaker claimed to be harmed by it.'

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -- Robert A. Heinlein
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And if, my friend, you'd have it end,
There's naught to hear or tell.
But need you try to black my eye
In wishing me farewell.

They Part - Dorothy Parker
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"Blert"

Pixel the Cat

'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls' - Robert A. Heinlein
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'It's normal - if people talk about it's because you exist.'

Eric Cantona
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'How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be
someone.'

Coco Chanel
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'What do you talk about when you're falling in love? It doesn't matter. All the questions are, Who are you? How do you think? Are you like me? Will you love me? And all the answers are, I am like this, like this, like this. I am like you. I like you.'

'Pacific Edge' - Kim Stanley Robinson
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One day Chuang-tzu and a friend were walking along a riverbank.
"How delightfully the fishes are enjoying thmselves in the water!" Chuang-tzu exclaimed.
"You are not a fish," his friend said. "How do you know whether or not the fishes are enjoying themselves?"
"You are not me," Chuang-tzu said. "How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?"

Taoist Mondo
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Flores died on the way up.

Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
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Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake
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Now this must be the sweetest place
From here to heaven's end;
The field is white and flowering lace,
The birches leap and bend,

The Hills, beneath the roving sun,
From green to purple pass,
And little, triffling breezes run
Their fingers through the grass.

So good it is, so gay it is,
So calm it is, and pure,
A one whose eyes may look on this
Must be the happier, sure.

But me - I see it flat and gray
And blurred with misery,
Because a lad a mile away
Has little need of me.


Landscape - Dorothy Parker
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'It is important to measure yourself correctly and regularly.'

Littlewoods Catalogue - Autumn/Winter - 94/95 P1116
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When you meet a master swordsman,
show him your sword.
When you meet a man who is not a poet,
do not show him your poem.

Lin-Chi
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'O soul, be changed into little water drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found:
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me.'

Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus - 1604
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'Ah Love!, could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits - and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Hearts Desire!'

Edward Fitzgerald - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1859
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1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

three rules of work - Albert Einstein
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'A desire not to butt into other peoples business is at least 80% of all human wisdom.'

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
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Our father which art in heaven
Stay there
And we will stay on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty.

Jacques Prévert
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The raindrops patter on the basho leaf, but these are not tears of grief; this is only the anguish of him who is listening to them.

Zen saying.
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A rational anarchist believes that concepts, such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame.. as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters
taking place inside human beings singly and *nowhere* else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live
perfectly in an imperfect world.. aware that his efforts will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
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'I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.'

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
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'I've got syphilitic hetro friends in every part of town
I don't hate them but I know them I don't want them hanging around'

Snakedriver - The Jesus and Mary Chain
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'Now what should I do in this place
But sit and count the chimes,
And splash cold water on my face
And spoil a page with rhymes?'

A Well-Worn Story - Dorothy Parker
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When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through.

I Ching
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'This is this.'

The Deer Hunter
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The sun's gone dim, and
The moon's turned black;
For I loved him, and
He didn't love back.

Two-Volume Novel - Dorothy Parker
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I saw him punch a man once, it was on the Burroughs train and he was in our car obviously high, and there was this woman who had some kind of deformity, a big nose and no chin and when she went to the toilets some guy said My Lord, that woman has really been beat hard with the ugly stick, and Boone bam! knocks him into the next seat and says, There is no such thing as an ugly woman.'

Two men talking about John Boone, first man on Mars - 'Red Mars' - Kim Stanley Robinson
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One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.

G.K. Chesterton
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if
they were not cherished by our own virtues.

All's well that ends well - William Shakespeare
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'I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.'

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
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'Mr. Jones, has it ever occurred to you, the world being what it is, that women sometimes prefer not to appear too bright? '

Starman Jones - Robert A. Heinlein - 1953
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Yesterday I loved, today I suffer, tomorrow I die: but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow of yesterday.
G. E. Lessing
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force…as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and suddenly were silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Star Wars

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[Immortal Wombat]

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think that sardines will be thrown into the sea .
- Eric Cantona
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