22-05-2002 05:32									#1
	Great CIV QUOTES Wanted! Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

please post your favorite civ2-3/smac/ctp1-2 related quote in the following format to have it added in our thank-you-for-posting screens

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After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true. 
            -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7
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	22-05-2002 07:54									#2
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Does anyone rember the Scientist's quote that our science is so great that... or so bad that...
If you do- I think It would be a good quote for the page loading screens

	22-05-2002 09:00									#3
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We are the most enlightened nation in the world! I salute you!

	22-05-2002 09:03									#4
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or perhaps you mean "even the cobblestoned streets possess more knowledge than we do, sire. Build more science improvements!"

or something along those lines? (i forget the exact quote)

	22-05-2002 10:37									#5
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	22-05-2002 12:18									#6
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	22-05-2002 12:31									#7
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	22-05-2002 13:42									#8
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You can just add it yourself .

Spice melange is worms! WORMS!!!
-- LightEning
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It ain't over 'till the fat lady sinks.
-- The Inquisition (LightEning)
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( these might not be Civ quotes, but these are Apolytoner quotes, which is even better!)

Last edited by Ari Rahikkala on 22-05-2002 at 16:59

	22-05-2002 13:44									#9
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the less work i have to do, the faster they will be included

no " please, and i think it would be better to use quotes of people a bit more known than yourself

	22-05-2002 15:02									#10
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG no " please

Would \" or &quote; work?

	22-05-2002 15:29									#11
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it's not that it wouldnt work but that i dont want them to appear

	22-05-2002 15:36									#12
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG no " please, and i think it would be better to use quotes of people a bit more known than yourself

But... other people wouldn't have posted those quotes, and then they wouldn't have been able to enrich anyone's life. Now at least I will get some publicity (with very, very good luck, of course...).

	22-05-2002 16:10									#13
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"I have leadership abilities of a small cantaloupe"
- Stefu

	22-05-2002 16:14									#14
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any quote that doesnt follow the format explained in the first post will NOT be included

	22-05-2002 17:00									#15
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Mine do, now...

	22-05-2002 17:42									#16
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It is not an optical illusion, it only looks like that.
            -- Aaglo 
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	22-05-2002 17:48									#17
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nice one aaglo. That's just gotta go in.

	22-05-2002 19:11									#18
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I'm not a complete idiot; some parts are still missing
            -- Aaglo
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	22-05-2002 19:16									#19
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         Work is the curse of the drinking class.
              -- Oscar Wilde
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	22-05-2002 19:42									#20
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Your betrayal of the Americans is legendary
-- Each time I played Civ 2.
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Markos, now, what about the huge list of quotes I sent you two or three months ago? It has some good miscellaneous quotes, which I think is the way to go, and a few Apolytoner quotes. If you say it's good, I can send you a HUGE another heap. Eh?

	22-05-2002 19:58									#21
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i dont recall it solver, please resend

	22-05-2002 20:00									#22
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Sent. See if it's suitable, if yes, I might expand both the general and Apolyton quote sections.

	22-05-2002 20:21									#23
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quote: Originally posted by aaglo code: Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde %

We could probably come up with about 1000 quotes from Oscar Wilde alone ...

how about :

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         All women grow up to be just like their mothers, 
that is their tragedy. No man does, that is his.
              -- Oscar Wilde
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	22-05-2002 20:38									#24
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Solver - congratulations - you just made Emperor!

SG[1]

	22-05-2002 20:42									#25
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Did I? I had 2950 posts three days ago... umm... some days I make 40 posts a day, though .

	22-05-2002 21:44									#26
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Visit me at Apolyton.net.
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or how about this one?

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Can I please have my posts back?
-- Everyone
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or this one?

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Answer your private messages Markos!
-- Everyone
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Why was my thread deleted?
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	22-05-2002 22:20									#27
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This one is kind of long, but it made me think of Civ 3...

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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

--Oscar Wilde
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

--Ezra Pound
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	23-05-2002 02:44									#28
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Courtesy of my diary...

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant, Reader's Digest, 1972
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with the world.
Cesare Pavese, Italian Novelist
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm, British author
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke, Nature, 1990
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	23-05-2002 03:38									#29
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
--Sir Winston Churchill, November 11, 1937 
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Sir Winston Churchill
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
--Sir Winston Churchill
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.
--Sigmund Freud
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
--Will Durant
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You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way.
--Will Rogers
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between.
--Oscar Wilde
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	23-05-2002 05:28									#30
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Repost from the other thread:

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The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
            -- Mark Twain
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
            -- Mark Twain
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
            -- Mark Twain
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
            -- Mark Twain
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Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
            -- Winston Chruchill
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Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
            -- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition No. 76
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
            -- Arnold J. Toynbee
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
            -- Timothy Leary
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
            -- Will Rogers
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
            -- Will Rogers
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All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
            -- Kenneth Clark
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