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  • Originally posted by ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN View Post
    Dr. Franklin just hit me with the paperwork a couple of hours ago. 'No interstellar traveler who's been in unknown space shall be allowed within the borders of Earth-controlled space until after a 60-day quarantine period.'"
    "The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it in the wrong way. In the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is."
    Flying around the room under my own power.

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    • Originally posted by ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN View Post
      Dr. Franklin just hit me with the paperwork a couple of hours ago. 'No interstellar traveler who's been in unknown space shall be allowed within the borders of Earth-controlled space until after a 60-day quarantine period.'"
      "Who decides that the workday is from 9 to 5, instead of 11 to 4? Who decides that the hemlines will be below the knee this year and short again next year? Who draws up the borders, controls the currency, handles all of the decisions that happen transparently around us?"
      All generalizations are false, including this one.

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      • "John, I can't imagine the kind of decisions that are going through your mind right now. I'm sure they're not easy. The important ones never are. But when push comes to shove, you've always done the right thing. What was the first lesson I ever taught you?"
        "Never start a fight, but always finish it."

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        • Originally posted by ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN View Post
          "John, I can't imagine the kind of decisions that are going through your mind right now. I'm sure they're not easy. The important ones never are. But when push comes to shove, you've always done the right thing. What was the first lesson I ever taught you?"
          "Never start a fight, but always finish it."
          "We begun in chaos, too primitive to make our own decisions. Then we were manipulated from outside by forces that thought they knew what was best for us. And now .. now we are finally standing on our own."

          (Whoo Hooo 1000 posts!!!! most in this thread I might add.)
          All generalizations are false, including this one.

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          • "I'm standing .. somewhere, on Centauri Prime, I think. And I am .. looking up. And there are ships, just like this, passing .. overhead. First a few, and then more, a thousand, two thousand, so many that they blot out the sun. Terrible sight, terrible."

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            • Originally posted by ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN View Post
              "I'm standing .. somewhere, on Centauri Prime, I think. And I am .. looking up. And there are ships, just like this, passing .. overhead. First a few, and then more, a thousand, two thousand, so many that they blot out the sun. Terrible sight, terrible."
              It's clearly from a highly-advanced civilization. We are down-playing this at home, trying to convince the public we know what it is, where it's from and that we are not worried. We don't have a clue.
              Flying around the room under my own power.

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              • Originally posted by Spoo Junky View Post
                It's clearly from a highly-advanced civilization. We are down-playing this at home, trying to convince the public we know what it is, where it's from and that we are not worried. We don't have a clue.
                They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the Universe. That we have not yet explained everything.
                What a wonderful world you live in. -
                Yeah, well, the rent is cheap, the pay is decent and I get to make my own hours.

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                • Originally posted by glindros View Post
                  They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the Universe. That we have not yet explained everything.
                  "We will begin your training tomorrow, after the Council has once again explained its wisdom to me."
                  "As empathy spreads, civilization spreads. As empathy contracts, civilization contracts...as we're seeing now.

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                  • Originally posted by Jan View Post
                    "We will begin your training tomorrow, after the Council has once again explained its wisdom to me."
                    "All right, all right. I'll be in and out in an hour. What could go wrong?"
                    Flying around the room under my own power.

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                    • Originally posted by Spoo Junky View Post
                      "All right, all right. I'll be in and out in an hour. What could go wrong?"
                      "Babylon will fall, this place will be destroyed. Fire, death, pain, fire, death, pain."
                      All generalizations are false, including this one.

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                      • Originally posted by AstroBoy View Post
                        "Babylon will fall, this place will be destroyed. Fire, death, pain, fire, death, pain."
                        "It's good to have things back to normal."
                        Flying around the room under my own power.

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                        • "There is no 'normal life', Michael. There's just life."

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                          • Originally posted by ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN View Post
                            "There is no 'normal life', Michael. There's just life."
                            "I'll leave it to you to try take all the fun out of life. I mean, come on, where's your sense of mystery, adventure?"
                            All generalizations are false, including this one.

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                            • Originally posted by AstroBoy View Post
                              "I'll leave it to you to try take all the fun out of life. I mean, come on, where's your sense of mystery, adventure?"
                              "The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe, Luc Derardi. The loud ones only take the credit."
                              Flying around the room under my own power.

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                              • "And you don't want credit for this grand endeavour?"

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