Great CIV QUOTES Wanted! - Page 6

Immortal Wombat · August 13, 2002, 14:38

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some people are stuck at scene 23 whereas scene 24 is so lovely....
-- MarkG
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The Mad Monk · August 13, 2002, 20:23

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Q Cubed, watermelons do not taste like arse. 
-- chegitz guevara 
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Ren · August 14, 2002, 04:48

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Just 1 more turn
--Ren
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Mr. President · August 14, 2002, 07:06

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"Your shameless pursuit of wealth is no longer acceptable. Vendetta upon you!"
-- Corazon Santiago, in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
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FlameFlash · August 19, 2002, 12:26

Since Solver always gets on to me for not saying this when I'm actually at home when a turn was received.

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Turn received... will play after work.
-- FlameFlash
You work too much.
--Solver and everybody else who have to wait for their turns.
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Method · August 19, 2002, 14:33

since no amount of whining by Kass will get every one of those SMAC quotes in (and i imagine that Markos doesn't want to sift through and pick out the ones he likes) here's a few of the good ones...

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God does not play dice.
-- Albert Einstein
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Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice,
the dice are loaded.
--Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
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To understand a thing, is to know the manner by which it might
be destroyed. A fundamental understanding of the universe is
essential then, to the total destruction of everything.
--Foreman Domai, "One Tool, One Thought"
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You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre, and
this death we do not comprehend. We shall take you in, but
may we ask this question--will we too catch the planetdeath
disease?
-- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet"
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perhaps more later

Vlad Antlerkov · August 19, 2002, 14:52

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Er, how many kobolds are there?
-- Fighter
Around 200. Wanna stop and count?
-- DM
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Space has a terrible power. We are here to protect you from the Terrible Secret of Space. Space has a terrible power. Do you have stairs in your house?
-- The Space Robots, "The Terrible Secret of Space"
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Vesayen, please explain how my choosing cheese Doritos over ranch affects the outcome of the rugby World Cup next year, in 500 words or less. Or more, if you like.
-- JohnIII
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Galvatron · August 20, 2002, 06:03

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Please open door before go through. Be careful and watch your step. 
            -- Galvatron (proud Apolytonian)
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Ok I'm not sure if this whole quote thing will work but this is my favourite one and I hope it will be included. Because it can be very useful for people who want to go through doors but always ran against it and get heavy injuries the whole time so this quote can be lifesaving.

Locutus · August 24, 2002, 05:47

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Immortal Wombat: I got a weird result when I set it up to return the unit's defence value. I got hoplites that wouldn't die. It killed a tank.
Peter Triggs: So, IW, another Civ3 feature that we can import into CTP2.
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Immortal Wombat · August 24, 2002, 05:50

Sonic · August 24, 2002, 07:45

Quoutes said by some great politicians/dictators

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"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong" - Adolf Hitler
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"If freedom is short of weapons we must compensate with willpower" - Adolf Hitler
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"Last word is for people who didn't said enough in their lifes" - Karl Marx
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"The family is the smallest but most precious unit in the building of a State" - Adolf Hitler
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"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" - Adolf Hitler
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"Art is the most endearing investment" - Adolf Hitler
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"Mr. Chamberlain likes to take weekends in the country. I shall take countries in weekend" - Adolf Hitler
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"What luck for the rulers that men don't think" - Adolf Hitler
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"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic" - Joseph Stalin
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"Death solves all problems" -Joseph Stalin
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"If you're afraid of wolves, don't go into the woods" - Joseph Stalin
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"Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives" - Genghis Khan
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"The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters" - Genghis Khan
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"The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from his all that he has" - Genghis Khan
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"Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes" - Genghis Khan
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"All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated" - Genghis Khan
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"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" - John Fidzgerald Kennedy
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that... I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it" - Ariel Sharon
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"I don't know with what wepons WW3 will be fought, but I know WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein
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Zero-Tau · August 24, 2002, 16:04

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Originally posted by Chowlett
Don't really know why I'm suggesting this.

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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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Bah. Amateur.

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How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics. One is, yes, adequate even enough to produce some fun and pleasure for an instant, miserably brief.
-- Mnemonic for the first 31 digits of Pi
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The scary thing is, I can actually remember all of that mnemonic...

On a more serious note, I think this should go into the quotes:

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Yes, I am god. I'm not trying to boast, it is just a simple statement of a fact.
-- HappySunShine
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And a funny story: When I activated my account from the email I got the quote "It doesn't matter how you do it, what matters is that you do it." or something like that. I'm still not sure whether that was a coincidence or not...

Kassiopeia · August 24, 2002, 16:36

Wasn't (Isn't?) Poul Anderson Danish?

Immortal Wombat · August 24, 2002, 17:51

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The scary thing is, I can actually remember all of that mnemonic...

Wait 'til you don't need the mnemonic. Then get scared.

Martin Gühmann · August 25, 2002, 07:33

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2100 BC: The first order of business is to learn what really happened to the late Apolyton XVII. A drunken barbarian , captured outside Memphis, and is cooked slowly over an open fire. (This procedure is called "barbaricueing".) The spit-roast protests that there had been an "unfortunate hunting accident", but after further basting he reveals that the barbarian warriors were hunting marsupials. Her-mann cries to the Sun God for vengeance! 
--Hermann the Lombard as Her-mann V, Apolyton XVIII of Egypt: The Empire of Ra (CTP2 Succession Game V)
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Mr. President · August 25, 2002, 20:05

Er, I'm not sure those Hitler quotes are tasteful or appropriate. As for the Sharon one, do you really want to encourage the local anti-Semites?

Sonic · August 25, 2002, 20:43

I think Hitler quates are appropriate here. Because most of them aren't based on fascism/holocaust/anti-semitism (except "ein vok ein reih, ein fuhrer" and maybe one about Chamberlain for a lesser extent). They are just like quoutes said by many other people. I have these quoutes as sigs in many forums and people doesn't knows who said them and they thinks that sigs are very good... And again, Stalin, Mao killed more people then Hitler. I believe 100% middle ages/ancient rulers would also fit in "bad" rulers category, because they used tortuings, ordered armies to kill people, etc. Many of XX age rulers and great politicians also would be "bad" (Mussolini, Tojo, Franco, Castro, Saddam, Omar, Truman to name a few) but this doesn't means we shouldn't use their quoutes.
If however quote is anti-humanic, propagandic (like, for example, "Jews are definitely a race, but they are not human", said by Hitler) I do agree it shouldn't be included. But if qoute have nothing to do with leaders' "bad" sides, then it should be apropriate to include them in my opinion.
As for Sharon quote... Well, I am not American so I don't believe local anti-semitics would care about that...

Locutus · August 25, 2002, 21:21

Nice one, Martin

I bet there are plenty of other good one-liners in the Sucession Game threads that would be suitable, especially from IW's and Hermann's accounts...

Panag · August 26, 2002, 06:38

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Originally posted by Sonic
I think Hitler quates are appropriate here. Because most of them aren't based on fascism/holocaust/anti-semitism (except "ein vok ein reih, ein fuhrer" and maybe one about Chamberlain for a lesser extent). They are just like quoutes said by many other people. I have these quoutes as sigs in many forums and people doesn't knows who said them and they thinks that sigs are very good... And again, Stalin, Mao killed more people then Hitler. I believe 100% middle ages/ancient rulers would also fit in "bad" rulers category, because they used tortuings, ordered armies to kill people, etc. Many of XX age rulers and great politicians also would be "bad" (Mussolini, Tojo, Franco, Castro, Saddam, Omar, Truman to name a few) but this doesn't means we shouldn't use their quoutes.
If however quote is anti-humanic, propagandic (like, for example, "Jews are definitely a race, but they are not human", said by Hitler) I do agree it shouldn't be included. But if qoute have nothing to do with leaders' "bad" sides, then it should be apropriate to include them in my opinion.
As for Sharon quote... Well, I am not American so I don't believe local anti-semitics would care about that...

hi ,

just where and when did Sharon give that Quote , ...

and just by the way , hitler quotes are not appropriate here , ....

have a nice day

Method · August 29, 2002, 11:35

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if someone votes NAY then i can tell you this:

TYP YOUR OWN F***ING CONSTITUTION!
--DeathByTheSword, upon completing the ACDG constitution.
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Needless to say, nobody voted NAY

Maniac · August 29, 2002, 11:48

TKG, shouldn't we keep DBTS' spelling mistakes in this quote?

Method · August 29, 2002, 11:49

thats what i thought at first, but, meh, i'll change it back.

Sonic · August 29, 2002, 12:13

Panag...

Sharon said that quote on October 8th, 2001. Don't know where though.

DeathByTheSword · August 30, 2002, 11:33

sorry for that typo guys couldnt help it i was tired and stuff

Anodyne · August 30, 2002, 14:31

Well, that "TYP" is kinda the soul of the whole quote

Gangerolf · August 30, 2002, 19:03

don't sell the pelts before you have shot the bear

DarkCloud · August 30, 2002, 22:15

Wouldn't it be great if life had CTRL-Z?
--Skanky Burns?
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Skanky Burns · August 31, 2002, 09:17

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Originally posted by DarkCloud
Wouldn't it be great if life had CTRL-Z?
--Skanky Burns?
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Thanks, but I got that quote from the between-post quotes - its already in the database.

Panag · August 31, 2002, 14:24

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Originally posted by Sonic
Panag...

Sharon said that quote on October 8th, 2001. Don't know where though.

hi ,

buh , he did not , ...

source > his office , ....

have a nice day

Sonic · August 31, 2002, 15:44

This article is my source:

http://www.duke.org/writings/10-03-01.shtml

scroll down a bit and you'll see that quoue...

BTW, I know from what site it is, so there is no reason to insult it again (it was very much disucussed already). I don't think that site makes up facts though (it is anyway not written which years October 8th exacly, so I though it is 2001 because article is about septerber 11th and it is written in late 2001. However, it could be also 2000 or 1999 maybe).