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Herein are memorable quotations from a wide variety of sources.
Uncertain World
Faith, it’s an uncertain world entirely!
Source: – Geofrey Blood. Captain Blood. Republic Pictures. 1935.
Enlightened Self-Interest
The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements. Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.
Source: – G’Kar. J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon Five Series. 1994.
A System
Everything is connected;
All things related;
The living and the dead;
The animate and the inanimate;
A system;
All power functioning to serve the whole.
Source: – Chani, explaining the origins of Spice to Muad’ Dib. Frank Herbert’s Dune (Sci-Fi TV Miniseries).
Very Human
Ivonova: “I wish I knew how things were going out there. The Captain’s idea about hitting Vorlon targets, delaying them long enough to put our fleets in the killing zone, between the Vorlons and Shadows.”
Lorien: “A brilliant strategy. He’s making a crucible, which he hopes will force out the truth. Quite brave. Possibly futile. But, very human.”
Source: – Babylon 5, Fourth Season, Episode 6: “Into The Fire”
No Whinning
Spence: “What do you use, weapons-wise?”
Sam: “Hmm?”
Spence: “Weapons. I’m a…I’m a weapons man.”
Sam: “Weapons man?”
Spence: “Yeah.”
Sam: “Great.”
Spence: “They tend to settle the argument. So what do you favor?”
Sam: “Oh you know, it’s a toolbox. I don’t care. You put the tools in for the job.”
Spence: “What?”
Sam: “You know, I actually favor the old 1911.”
Spence: “Forty-five? Old gun.”
Sam: [Nodding] “It served my country well, a long time.”
Spence: [Scoffs] “Your country. Not done too well, have you, last few wars?”
Sam: “Perhaps not, but at least we don’t go around whining about it.”
Source: John Frankenheimer’s Ronan, United Artists Pictures, 1997.
Good Sense
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Source: – Livy (59BC-17AD)
Landscape
Deirdre: “I see you’re working on our problem.”
Sam: “Well, either your part of the problem, or you’re part of the solution, or you’re just part of the landscape.”
Source: John Frankenheimer’s Ronin, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists
Education
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Source: – Mark Twain
Moral System
The free market is a moral system, not because it makes men moral, but because it rewards those who serve others efficiently and penalizes those who don’t.
Source: – Dr. Gary North
Results
If you want creative insubordination, hire men. If you want faithful implementation, hire women.
Source: – Dr. Gary North
Long Habits
A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT.
Source: – Thomas Paine
No Harm
Each fancies that no harm will come to his neglect.
Source: – Thucydides
Delicate Souls
Delicate souls can’t handle too much reality.
Source: – T.S. Elliot
The Shoes on Your Feet
Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
Source: – Brother Alwyn in “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars” episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 Series. 1994.
To Know
You do not wish to know…anything. You wish only to speak. That which you know, you ignore, because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, you invent. But none of that matters, except that he was a good man, a kind man, who cared about the world, even when the world cared nothing for him.
Source: – Delenn responding to criticism of John Sheridan in J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 Series: “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars” episode.
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