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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Originally posted by AstroBoy View Post"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
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Originally posted by alpha128 View Post"This is how the world ends, swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time."
We did not know what was inside. It has waited, locked and sealed for over 900 years. We do not understand how or why. We know only that it is. How did he know that you would be here? How did he know your name?
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Originally posted by Kraig View PostEntil'Zha. Entil'Zha. I was sent to find you. The ancient books told us that on this day, no sooner, no later we were to enter the sanctuary and open this.
We did not know what was inside. It has waited, locked and sealed for over 900 years. We do not understand how or why. We know only that it is. How did he know that you would be here? How did he know your name?"It means living each moment as if it were your last one. It means doing each right thing because it is the right thing. The scale doesn't matter. The where, the when, the how, or in what cause... none of those things matter."
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Originally posted by alpha128 View Post"I hear you've got a saying, 'Understanding is a three-edged sword.' Well, we've got a saying too. 'Put your money where your mouth is.'""It means living each moment as if it were your last one. It means doing each right thing because it is the right thing. The scale doesn't matter. The where, the when, the how, or in what cause... none of those things matter."
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Originally posted by Melanie View Post"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Originally posted by AstroBoy View Post"I think I'll vote for Marie Crane. .. I do not like Santiago. I always thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin and his vice-president has several. This, to me, is not a good combination."
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Originally posted by alpha128 View Post"Interesting. Do you know that the odds of this particular combination are 5000 to 1 against?""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"Out of their differences comes symmetry, their unique capacity to fight against impossible odds. Hurt them, and they only come back stronger. "All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Originally posted by AstroBoy View Post"Well, actually, I believe there are currents in the Universe. Eddies and tides that pull us one way or the other. Some we have to fight, some we have to embrace. Unfortunately, the currents that we have to fight look exactly like the currents we have to embrace. The currents that we think are the one that's gonna make us stronger, they are the ones that are going to destroy us. And the ones that we think are going to destroy us, they are the ones that are going to make us stronger. Now, the other current--"
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Originally posted by alpha128 View Post"Why are you doing this? Why are you torturing me? You can at least tell me what you want."Last edited by Kraig; 11-04-2017, 06:44 PM.
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Originally posted by Kraig View PostI'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?"As empathy spreads, civilization spreads. As empathy contracts, civilization contracts...as we're seeing now.
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Originally posted by alpha128 View Post"It is a pleasure to meet you. It is a pleasure to meet you. It is a pleasure to meet you."All generalizations are false, including this one.
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