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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a turn-based strategy computer game, where the player controls one of several human factions on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. It is similar to the Civilization series of games. However, being a science fiction game set over 100 years in the future from the time of its design, the designers had wide latitude to develop a backstory to go along with the game, which they enriched with quotes and fictional works by the game's seven playable leaders, as well as their followers and several real-world thinkers and writers.

An expansion to the game was later released. Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire doubled the number of playable factions, and incorporated new technologies and secret projects into the game. The expansion has become considerably rare even compared to the original.

University of Planet

 * The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components. Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons, quarks. Each layer unraveled reveals new secrets, but also new mysteries.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"
 * Accompanies the Advanced Subatomic Theory technology

 * This unusual specimen is not so much a classic particle as a connector--a kind of string attaching two particles. As distance increases the connective power becomes attenuated, but if it is cut the power vanishes: forever.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"
 * Accompanies the Graviton Theory technology

 * In one moment, Earth; in the next, Heaven.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Space Elevator"

 * Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"
 * Accompanies the Intellectual Integrity technology

 * What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn't think too much about that."
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Singularity Inductor"

 * We have reached an informational threshold which can only be crossed by harnessing the speed of light directly. The quickest computations require the fastest possible particles moving along the shortest paths. Since the capability now exists to take our information directly from photons traveling molecular paths, the final act of the information revolution will soon be upon us.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"
 * Accompanies the Optical Computers technology

 * Time travel in the classic sense has no place in rational theory, but temporal distortion does exist on the quantum level, and more importantly it can be controlled.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"
 * Accompanies the Temporal Mechanics technology

 * There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Address to the Faculty"
 * Accompanies the Nonlinear Mathematics technology

 * To map the very stuff of life; to look into the genetic mirror and watch a million generations march past. That, friends, is both our curse and our proudest achievement. For it is in reaching to our beginnings that we begin to learn who we truly are.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Address to the Faculty"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Human Genome Project"

 * Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values, "sense data". Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into your original function, adding a new set of sense data. Continue to feed your results back into the original function ad infinitum. What do you have? The fundamental principle of human consciousness.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "The Feedback Principle"
 * Accompanies the Pre-Sentient Algorithms technology

 * The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat. I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "See How They Run"
 * Accompanies the Matter Transmission technology

 * The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say "It cannot be done."
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, University Commencement
 * Accompanies the Skunkworks facility
 * Have you ever wondered why clouds behave in such familiar ways when each specimen is so unique? Or why the energy exchange market is so unpredictable? In the coming age we must develop and apply nonlinear mathematical models to real world phenomena. We shall seek, and find, the hidden fractal keys which can unravel the chaos around us.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, University Commencement
 * Accompanies the Hologram Theatre facility

 * The Academician's private residences shall remain off-limits to the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability, we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this ridiculous witch hunt!"
 * Fedor Petrov, Vice Provost for University Affairs
 * Accompanies the Retroviral Engineering technology
 * Let the Gaians preach their silly religion, but one way or the other I shall see this compound burned, seared, and sterilized until every hiding place is found and until every last Mind Worm egg, every last slimy one, has been cooked to a smoking husk. That species shall be exterminated, I tell you! Exterminated!
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, Lab Three aftermath
 * Accompanies the Temple of Planet facility

 * The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain. What it can do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Nonlinear Genetics"
 * Accompanies the Gene Splicing technology

 * Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk. There are no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance, we can in theory splice the native plants' talent for nitrogen fixation into a terran plant.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Nonlinear Genetics"
 * Accompanies the Centauri Genetics technology

 * It is a medical commonplace that the tissues of the human body replace themselves regularly, essentially creating an entirely new body every seven years. From whence then come cancer and the slow degeneration of age? They exist as faults in the patterns of intelligence within the genes themselves; by reprogramming these smallest parts, the whole becomes well.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Nonlinear Genetics"
 * Accompanies the Nanohospital facility

 * A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions -- if only we lived in one.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone"
 * Accompanies the Superstring Theory technology

 * Time dilates as the speed of light approaches. To the extent that light consists of particles, it is in its own way, timeless. Through simple perturbations of the temporal manifold, we can refract or repel photons most efficiently.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone"
 * Accompanies the Photon/Wave Mechanics technology

 * Imagine the entire contents of the planetary datalinks, the sum total of human knowledge, blasted into the Planetmind's fragile neural network with the full force of every reactor on the planet. That is our last-ditch attempt to win humanity a reprieve from extinction at the hands of an awakened alien god.
 * Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Planet Speaks"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Voice of Planet"
 * Allows all players to begin the race to a Transcendence victory

Lord's Believers

 * The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil.
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Blessed Struggle"
 * Accompanies the Information Networks technology

 * And so we return again to the holy void. Some say this is simply our destiny, but I would have you remember always that the void EXISTS, just as surely as you or I. Is nothingness any less a miracle than substance?
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
 * Accompanies the Advanced Spaceflight technology

 * Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation, and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior. But always they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than they thought.
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
 * Accompanies the Quantum Machinery technology

 * Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind.
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "Self-Aware Colony"

 * And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever, leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair?
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "Bulk Matter Transmitter"

 * Already we have turned all of our critical industries, all of our material resources, over to these...things...these lumps of silver and paste we call nanorobots. And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day announce that they have no further need for us?
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
 * Accompanies the Industrial Nanorobotics technology

 * Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God"
 * Accompanies the Controlled Singularity technology

 * As distances vanish and the people can flow freely from place to place, society will cross a psychological specific heat boundary and enter a new state. No longer a solid or liquid, we have become as a vapor and will expand to fill all available space. And like a gas, we shall not be easily contained.
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Planetary Transit System"

 * Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just beyond the last theorem.
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God"
 * Accompanies the Unified Field Theory technology

 * At atrociously high energy states, the properties of matter change subtly and new miracles become possible. The Plasma Accretion process is now dangerous and difficult to control, but its products will soon become commonplace in our society.
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Lord Works"
 * Accompanies the High Energy Chemistry technology

 * The Morgans fear what may not be purchased, for a trader cannot comprehend a thing that is priceless.
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Collected Sermons"
 * Accompanies the Planetary Economics technology

 * Go through, my children! The time of miracles is upon us. Let us cast off sin and walk together to the Garden of the Lord. With God's mercy we shall meet again on the other side.
 * Sister Miriam Godwinson, "Last Testament"
 * Accompanies the Psi Gate facility

Spartan Federation

 * Superior training and superior weaponry have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall military strength. Well-trained, well-equipped troops can stand up to many more times their lesser brethren than linear arithmetic would seem to indicate.
 * Spartan Battle Manual
 * Accompanies the Command Center facility

 * Information, the first principle of warfare, must form the foundation of all your efforts. Know, of course, thine enemy. But in knowing him do not forget above all to know thyself. The commander who embraces this totality of battle shall win even with inferior force.
 * Spartan Battle Manual
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Command Nexus"

 * Against such abominations, we organize our defenses on the principle that one strong and able mind can shield the many.
 * Spartan Battle Manual
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Neural Amplifier"

 * Air power rests at the apex of the first triad of victory, for it combines Mobility, Flexibility, and Initiative.
 * Spartan Battle Manual
 * Accompanies the Doctrine: Air Power technology

 * He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.
 * Spartan Kel, "Honing the Ki"
 * Accompanies the Doctrine: Flexibility technology

 * The klaxon began to wail, but we felt the reassuring tingle of the Tachyon Field crackling to life around us, encasing the entire base in its impenetrable glow.
 * Spartan Kel, "The Fall of Sparta"
 * Accompanies the Tachyon Field facility

 * Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
 * Accompanies the Advanced Military Algorithms technology

 * Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort. Children not only shape our future; they determine in many ways our present. Men and women work harder knowing their children are safe and close at hand, and never forget that, with children present, parents will defend their home to the death!
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
 * Accompanies the Children's Creche facility

 * I have often been asked: if we have traveled between the stars, why can we not launch the simplest of orbital probes? These fools fail to understand the difficulty of finding the appropriate materials on this Planet, of developing adequate power supplies, and creating the infrastructure necessary to support such an effort. In short, we have struggled under the limitations of a colonial society on a virgin planet. Until now.
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
 * Accompanies the Orbital Spaceflight technology

 * It is altogether fitting that we who have sailed the deeps of space now return again to the sea. This is in many ways a water planet, and it can be ruled from the waves. With sea power, rugged terrain can be bypassed and enemy strongholds isolated. Once naval superiority is achieved, Planet is ours for the taking.
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Maritime Control Center"

 * Industrial Grade Nano-Paste, one of Planet's most valuable commodities, can also be one of its most dangerous. Simply pour out several canisters, slide in a programming transponder, and step well away while the stuff cooks. In under an hour the nano will use available materials to assemble a small factory, a hovertank, or enough rifles to equip a regiment.
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Nano Factory"

 * Our scientists now use fractal theory to "teach" the molecules to assume, or resume, a particular form. Substances of amazing strength become simple once the formulae are properly computed.
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "The Council of War"
 * Accompanies the Nanometallurgy technology

 * We shall take only the greatest minds, the finest soldiers, the most faithful servants. We shall multiply them a thousandfold and release them to usher in a new era of glory.
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "The Council of War"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "Cloning Vats"

 * A ship at sea is its own world. To be the captain of a ship is to be the unquestionable ruler of that world and requires all of the leadership skills of a prince or minister.
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "Leadership and the Sea"
 * Accompanies the Doctrine: Initiative technology

 * Until now the battle had been proceeding smoothly. The enemy was outflanked and had been driven from the reactor housing, but against the reactor itself the matter cannons were strangely ineffective. Rounds simply... stopped. In mid-air.
 * Col. Corazon Santiago, "A Tactical History of Sparta"

 * I don't know but I've been told, Deirdre's got a Network Node. Likes to press the on-off switch, Dig that crazy Gaian witch!
 * Spartan Barracks March
 * Accompanies the Network Node facility

 * Mary had a little lamb, Little lamb little lamb, Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.
 * Assassins' Redoubt Final Transmission
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Dream Twister"

 * A handsome young cyborg named Ace, wooed women at every base, but once ladies glanced at his special enhancement, they vanished with nary a trace.
 * Barracks Graffiti, Sparta Command
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Cyborg Factory"

Peacekeeping Forces

 * As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Planetary Datalinks"

 * Our ancestors harnessed the power of a sun, and so again shall we.
 * Comissioner Pravin Lal, "The Science of Our Fathers"
 * Accompanies the Fusion Power technology

 * I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me? So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Time of Bereavement"
 * Accompanies the Biomachinery technology

 * I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine - just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness. Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Man and Machine"
 * Accompanies the Neural Grafting technology

 * Until quite recently spider silk had the highest tensile strength known to man. And the name silksteel pays homage to the arachnid for good reason.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Scientific Survey"
 * Accompanies the Silksteel Alloys technology

 * In the years since our arrival, we have foolishly disrupted so many of Planet's ecosystems that entire species may vanish without our ever having understood, or even known them. We must halt this plunder, and halt it immediately, for our own survival as a species depends on our ability to strike a balance on this world.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Mind Worm, Mind Worm"
 * Accompanies the Centauri Preserve facility

 * The Mind Worms are the natural defenses of the living Planet--the white blood cells, if you will. In a world in which unassimilated thought represents danger, the Mind Worm seeks out concentrations of sentient mental energy and destroys them, ruthlessly and efficiently.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Mind Worm, Mind Worm"
 * Accompanies the Centauri Psi technology

 * I hold a scrap of paper in the darkness and light it. I watch it burn bright and curl, disappearing into nothingness, and the heat burns my fingers. Where has it gone? What has it become? I cannot shake the feeling that I have witnessed a form of transcendence.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "The Convergence"
 * Accompanies the Mass to Energy facility

 * The entire character of a base and its inhabitants can be absorbed in a quick trip to the Rec Commons. The sweaty arenas of Fort Legion, the glittering gambling halls of Morgan Bank, the sunny lovers' trysts in Gaia's High Garden, or the somber reading rooms of U.N. Headquarters. Even the feeding bay at the Hive gives stark insight into the sleeping demons of Yang's communal utopia.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "A Social History of Planet"
 * Accompanies the Recreation Commons facility

 * Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "A Social History of Planet"
 * Accompanies the Doctrine: Mobility technology

 * Scientific theories are judged by the coherence they lend to our natural experience and the simplicity with which they do so. The grand principle of the heavens balances on the razor's edge of truth.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "A History of Science"
 * Accompanies the Applied Physics technology

 * The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.
 * Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Report on Human Rights"
 * Accompanies the Mind/Machine Interface technology

Human Hive

 * Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment.
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Ascetic Virtues"

 * I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength.
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
 * Accompanies the Monopole Magnets technology

 * What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Virtual World"

 * My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
 * Accompanies the Genejack Factory facility

 * 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"
 * Accompanies the Probability Mechanics technology

 * Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken.
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
 * Accompanies the Polymorphic Software technology

 * Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality, you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself.
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
 * Accompanies the Bio-Engineering technology

 * If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself.
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
 * Accompanies the Planetary Networks technology

 * We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life consists in a stream of codes not so different from the successive frames of a watchvid. Why then cannot we cut one code short here, and start another there? Is life so fragile that it can withstand no tampering? Does the sacred brook no improvement?
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Dynamics of Mind"
 * Accompanies the Biogenetics technology

 * It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.
 * Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
 * Accompanies the Recycling Tanks facility

Morgan Industries

 * Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed has followed us to the stars and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Merchant Exchange"

 * Our first challenge is to create an entire economic infrastructure, from top to bottom, out of whole cloth. No gradual evolution from previous economic systems is possible, because there is no previous economic system. Each interdependent piece must be materialized simultaneously and in perfect working order; otherwise the system will crash out before it ever gets off the ground.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
 * Accompanies the Industrial Economics technology

 * Energy is the currency of the future.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
 * Accompanies the Global Energy Theory technology

 * We estimate that during the next mission century most of Planet's industries will be moved off-planet to Nessus Prime and other orbital facilities. Many of our industries will benefit greatly from the low gravity environments available in space, particularly those involving genetically engineered microbes.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Living Refinery"

 * And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary government, from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls Planet. In former times the energy monopoly was called "The Power Company"; we intend to give this name an entirely new meaning.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
 * Accompanies the Quantum Converter facility

 * Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely. Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
 * Accompanies the Orbital Power Transmitter facility

 * Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival requires the continual discovery of new energy to pump into the system. He who controls the sources of energy controls the means of survival.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
 * Accompanies the Energy Bank facility

 * You ivory tower intellectuals must not lose touch with the world of industrial growth and hard currency. It is all very well and good to pursue these high-minded scientific theories, but research grants are expensive. You must justify your existence by providing not only knowledge but concrete and profitable applications as well.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
 * Accompanies the Applied Relativity technology

 * Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
 * Accompanies the Industrial Base technology

 * Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
 * Accompanies the Nanoreplicator facility

 * Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours-- the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.
 * "Mythology for Profit", Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech
 * Accompanies the Hologram Theatre facility

 * What goes up…better doggone well stay up.
 * Morgan Gravitonics, Company Slogan
 * Accompanies the Applied Gravitonics technology

 * Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say that super conducting fiber alone makes our present economy possible.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
 * Accompanies the Superconductor technology

 * Yes, yes, we've all heard the philosophers babble about "oneness" being "beautiful" and "holy". But let me tell you that this kind of oneness certainly isn't pretty and if you're not careful it will scare the bejeezus out of you.
 * Anonymous Lab Technician, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
 * Accompanies the Singularity Mechanics technology

 * Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that. It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you really find God in technology.
 * Anonymous Metagenics Dockworker, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
 * Accompanies the Super Tensile Solids technology

 * 'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, always choose 'Retry.'
 * Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft
 * Accompanies the Matter Editation technology

 * Organic Superlube? Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it, though - it'll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets.
 * T. M. Morgan-Reilly, Morgan Metagenics
 * Accompanies the Organic Superlubricant technology
 * It will happen, and it will happen in our lifetimes. Fusion Power isn't just the future. Fusion Power is now.
 * T. M. Morgan-Reilly, Morgan Metagenics
 * Accompanies the Fusion Lab facility

 * As I stepped onto the Magtube, a thought struck me: can there be friction where there is no substance? And can substance be tricked into hiding from itself?
 * Dr. Gail Nimbala, Morgan Industries Researcher
 * Accompanies the Frictionless Surfaces technology

 * Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network nodes! Our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us. --Where do you want your Node today?
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morgan Data Systems press release
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Network Backbone"

 * I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morganlink 3D-Vision Interview
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Longevity Vaccine"

 * Fossil fuels in the last century reached their extreme prices because of their inherent utility: they pack a great deal of potential energy into an extremely efficient package. If we can but sidestep the 100 million year production process, we can corner this market once again.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Strategy Session
 * Accompanies the Synthetic Fossil Fuels technology

 * Objects once measured in meters have become so small that they cannot be seen by the naked eye, with revolutionary applications across the board. Gentlemen, forget what your courtesans have told you: size does matter!
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morgan Industries Annual Report
 * Accompanies the Nanominiaturization technology

 * In the borehole pressure mines 100km beneath Planetsurface, at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity where crust gives way to mantle, temperatures often reach levels well in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius. Exploitation of Planet's resources under such brutal conditions has require quantum advances in robotic and teleoperational technology.
 * Morgan Industries, Ltd., "Annual Report"
 * Accompanies the Industrial Automation technology

 * We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn, and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task to be performed. The feedback loop never really ends, so a tenth year polysentience can be a priceless jewel or a psychotic wreck, but it is the primary bonding process--the childhood, if you will--that has the most far-reaching repercussions.
 * Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft
 * Accompanies the Digital Sentience technology

 * Some civilian workers got in among the research patients today and became so hysterical I felt compelled to have them nerve stapled. The consequence, of course, will be another public relations nightmare, but I was severely shaken by the extent of their revulsion towards a project so vital to our survival.
 * CEO Nwabudike Morgan, The Personal Diaries
 * Accompanies the Research Hospital facility

Gaia's Stepdaughters

 * In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Planet Dreams"
 * Accompanies the Tree Farm facility

 * Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms; just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from the pink. Follow the Glow Mites as they gather and organize the fallen spores. What higher order guides their work? Mark my words: someone or something is managing the ecology of this planet.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Planet Dreams"
 * Accompanies the Centauri Empathy technology

 * The fungus has been Planet's dominant lifeform since about the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth. But when, once every hundred million years or so, the neural net at last achieves the critical mass necessary to become sentient, the final metamorphosis kills of most of the other life on the planet. It is possible that we humans can help to break this tragic cycle.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Planet Dreams"
 * Accompanies the Sentient Econometrics technology
 * You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants. Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the trace elements required for life. Often, one destroys the other. Here, they are tended with care and kept well nourished. They thrive together, and the native fungus does not unleash its terrible defenses. As you can see, competition is unnecessary when resources are plentiful and population growth is controlled.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Planet Dreams"
 * Accompanies the Centauri Preserve facility
 * Sky farms are fantastically beautiful, with their kilometer long networks of glass framed in grids of metal, and the sunlight shining through jungles of vegetation inside. When one of them catches the light, you can see the refracted beauty for miles; they are life-giving stars on a desolate planet...gardens on the wing.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Planet Dreams"
 * Accompanies the Sky Hydroponics Lab facility

 * Having now established a secure perimeter, we've made ourselves relatively safe from enemy incursions. But against the seemingly random attacks by Planet's native life, only our array warning sensors can help us, for the mind worms infiltrate through every crevice and chew through anything softer than plasma-steel.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "The Early Years"
 * Accompanies the Perimeter Defense facility

 * The prevalence of anoxic environments rich in organic material, combined with the presence of nitrated compounds has led to an astonishing variety of underground organisms which live in the absence of oxygen and "breathe" nitrate. Likewise, the scarcity of carbon in the environment has forced plants to economize on its use. Thus, all our efforts to return carbon to the biosphere will encourage the native life to proliferate. Conversely, the huge quantities of nitrate in the soil will be heaven to human farmers.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "The Early Years"
 * Accompanies the Ecological Engineering technology

 * I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing to listen. These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering. Can a planet be said to have achieved sentience?
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, Arguments in Council
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Xenoempathy Dome"

 * From the delicate strands, between minds we weave out mesh: a blanket to warm the soul.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "The Collected Poems"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Telepathic Matrix"

 * 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"
 * Accompanies the Advanced Ecological Engineering technology

 * You waited so long to heed us, EarthDeirdre, Almost we pruned you, as we may yet prune your branches.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations With Planet"
 * Accompanies the Secrets of Alpha Centauri technology

 * We welcome you, EarthDeirdre and earthwheat and earthtree as honored guests, for you add great power to our ancient song--planetfungus and planetworm and planetmind sing and play here, and you are welcome among us.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Pholus Mutagen"

 * You are orphans, earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried so young among the aeons. Yet now you fill the skies where we watched a million sunsets with flame and contrails, paying no heed to the hard lessons the universe has tried to teach you. Are you a breath of life to invigorate a complacent world, you earthhumans, or an insidious cancer which must be excised?
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet"
 * Accompanies the Aerospace Complex facility

 * Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations With Planet", Epilogue
 * Accompanies the Transcendent Thought technology

 * No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations With Planet", Epilogue
 * This accompanies the Secret Project "Ascent to Transcendance", which also leads to a Transcendence Victory by which the player is first to join their consciousness with that of the sentient Planet's

 * Planet's atmosphere, though a gasping death to humans and most animals, is paradise for Earth plants. The high nitrate content of the soil and the rich yellow sunlight bring an abundant harvest wherever adjustments can be made for the unusual soil conditions.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "A Comparative Biology of Planet"
 * Accompanies the Centauri Ecology technology

 * The Isle of the Deep is really not a single creature but a colony of thousands of individual tubules, an aquatic vector of the Mind Worm which terrorizes Planet's continents. Over its lifetime certain tubules secrete a tough, gluelike substance which hardens to form the characteristic shell that floats the colony and creates the appearance of a rogue island.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "A Comparative Biology of Planet"
 * Accompanies the Centauri Meditation technology
 * Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth's, on right-handed DNA, and codes for all the same amino acids, the inevitable chemical and structural differences from a billion years of evolution in an alien environment render the native plant life highly poisonous to humans. Juicy, ripe grenade fruits may look appealing, but a mouthful of organonitrates will certainly change your mind in a hurry.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "A Comparative Biology of Planet"
 * Accompanies the Biology Lab facility

 * As the writhing, teeming mass of mindworms swarmed over the outer perimeter, we saw the defenders recoil in horror. "Stay calm! Use your flame guns!" shouted the commander, but to no avail. It is well known that the Mind Worm Boil uses psychic terror to paralyze its prey, and then carefully implants ravenous larvae into the brains of its still-conscious victims. Even with the best weapons, only the most disciplined troops can resist this horrific attack.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Our Secret War"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Citizen's Defense Force"

 * Symbols are the key to telepathy. The mind wraps its secrets in symbols; when we discover the symbols that shape our enemy's thought, we can penetrate the vault of his mind.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Our Secret War"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Empath Guild"
 * As we approached we were confronted by the ruined splendor of Sparta Command. The true immensity of the place became instantly apparent as our Quantum Tank crunched over the rubble and parked next to a shattered bunker, but the extent of the destruction took weeks to assess. The shielded datacore had sustained several massive breaches and smoke still billowed from the numerous cannon ports. There were few signs of human life.
 * Lady Deirdre Skye, "Our Secret War"
 * Accompanies the Headquarters facility

 * I shall not confront Planet as an enemy, but shall accept its mysteries as gifts to be cherished. Nor shall I crudely seek to peel the layers away like the skin from an onion. Instead I shall gather them together as the tree gathers the breeze. The wind shall blow and I shall bend. The sky shall open and I shall drink my fill.
 * Gaian Acolytes Prayer
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Weather Paradigm"

The Cybernetic Consciousness

 * Those who join us need only give up only half of their humanity- the illogical, ill-tempered, and disordered half, commonly thought of as 'right-brain' functioning. In exchange, the 'left-brain' capacities are increased to undreamed potentials. The tendency of Biologicals to cling instead to their individual personalities can only be attributed to archaic evolutionary tendencies.
 * Prime Function Aki Zeta-5, "Convergence"

 * And I stood before him, and I sang unto her, and it appeared to listen. His very countenance rippled like the sea, and the sound of my own voice came back to me, distorted. For a moment I thought she was mocking me, or it was nonsapient and mimicking me. Then I understood: the sounds were not important; it was how I affected his sounds and how she affected mine that transmitted the message.
 * Prime Function Aki Zeta-5, "One Future"
 * Accompanies the Progenitor Psych technology

 * The Progenitor race appears to sense, and possibly even manipulate, local fields an untrained human cannot perceive without mechanical aid, including at the very least electricity and magnetism. This sensitivity creates entirely new worlds of artistic endeavors for the race- or it may be developed into a powerful combat awareness that can foil any attempt at surprise.
 * Prime Function Aki Zeta-5, "Alien Analysis"
 * Accompanies the Field Modulation technology

 * And here we tinker with metal, to try to give it a kind of life, and suffer those who would scoff at our efforts. But who's to say that, if intelligence had evolved in some other form in past millennia, the ancestors of these beings would not now scoff at the idea of intelligence residing within meat?
 * Prime Function Aki Zeta-5, "The Fallacies of Self-Awareness"
 * Accompanies the Sentient Resonance technology

Nautilus Pirates

 * The sea... vast, mysterious... and full of wealth! And the nations of Planet send their trade across it without a thought. Well, the sea doesn't care about them, so it lets them pass. But we can give the sea a little hand in teaching the landlubbers a lesson in humility.
 * Captain Ulrik Svensgaard, "The Ripple and the Wave"

 * Of all the employments, working in the the brood pit was at once the most horrific and the most desirable. Horrific for what we saw occur day after day, and because of the very nature of the sessile native lifeforms. Desirable, because having being chosen to work in the pit, you were highly unlikely to be one of its victims.
 * Captain Ulrik Svensgaard "The Shadow Resonance"

 * Each individual pipe contains a hot slurry of minerals drawn from Planet's crust and makes a sound like rain falling on a tin roof. When they converge on the trunkline the sound is a terrifying thunder, a thunder of untold wealth, and power.
 * Captain Ulrik Svensgaard, "Tending the Sea"

 * The boundary between cold water and warm, the Thermocline, has been important to undersea warfare for hundreds of years of man's history. Now we have found away to harness that power for constructive purposes. Once what cloaked us can now feed us. Once what shielded us from death, now brings us life.
 * Captain Ulrik Svensgaard, "The Ripple and the Wave"

The Free Drones

 * To understand a thing is to know the manner by which it might be destroyed. A fundamental understanding of the basic building-blocks of the Universe is essential, then, to the total destruction of everything.
 * Foreman Domai, "One Tool, One Thought"
 * Accompanies the String Resonance technology

 * In one dimension I find existence, in two I find life, but in three, I find freedom.
 * Foreman Domai, Cadet Induction Ceremony, Mission Year 2216
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "Cloudbase Academy"

 * The managers always talked about the view from 30,000 feet. The problem with 30,000 feet though, was at that height, all of the people look like ants.
 * Foreman Domai, "Genejack and the Beanstalk"

The Data Angels

 * What's more important, the data or the jazz? Sure, sure, 'Information should be free' and all that- but anyone can set information free. The jazz is in how you do it, what you do it to, and in almost getting caught without getting caught. The data is 1's and 0's. Life is the jazz.
 * Datajack Sinder Roze, "Infobop"

 * War is war; destruction is destruction. You think this is obvious. But war is not destruction, it is victory. To achieve victory, simply appear to give your opponent what he wants and he will go away, or join you in your quest for additional power.
 * Datajack Sinder Roze, "Information Burns"
 * Accompanies the Adaptive Doctrine technology

 * By creating a planetary network, mankind on Planet now has the ability to share information at light-speed. But by creating a single such network, each faction has brought themselves closer to discovery as well. At the speed of light, we will catch your information, tag it like an animal in the wild, and release it unharmed-if such should serve our purposes.
 * Datajack Sinder Roze, "The Alpha Codex"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Nethack Terminus"

The Cult of Planet

 * Mankind has been blind for thousands of years-for all of its history. We have come to a place whose wonders are a hundred-fold more amazing than anything on Earth. Around us is clear evidence of the will of a higher power. I bring the Vision to the blind eyes of men. I bring the Word to the deaf ears of men. I will make them see it. I will make them hear it.
 * Prophet Cha Dawn, "Planet Rising"

 * The ancient Chinese had a name for it: Feng Shui. We call it energy flow. It is the same thing, the same thought: energy is everywhere, but only a fraction of it is tapped by humans for their purposes. Now the Progenitors have taught us that we can tap not only our own latent abilities, but the latent abilities of the Universe itself.
 * Prophet Cha Dawn, "Planet Rising"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project "The Planetary Energy Grid"

 * I saw the alien phalanx coming toward us, and I calmed my mind as Kri'lan had taught me. And what I saw next to the phalanx was a shadow regiment, half-formed from the resonance around them. I cursed the aliens... with power like that, each one could fight as many, and I thanked Planet for sending us the betrayer.
 * Prophet Cha Dawn, "The Betrayer and I"
 * Accompanies the Bioadaptive Resonance technology

 * Kri'lan taught me of the resonance and how to feel it. After much training, I could see -- the very surface under our feet, Planet itself -- is a living, fluctuating nexus of energy, violent, beautiful and quite unstable. And I could also feel its cousins -- distant mirrors on the other side of the space-time continuum -- the far-flung Manifolds.
 * Prophet Cha Dawn, "The Betrayer and I"
 * Accompanies the Secrets of the Manifolds technology

Manifold Caretakers

 * Tau Ceti flowering: Horrors visited upon neighboring systems must never be repeated. Therefore: if it means the end of our evolution as a species, so be it..
 * Caretaker Lular H'minee, "Sacrifice: Life"

 * Humans: there is no space inside rocket. Progenitor: space exists around all things with mass. Space: "here". Inside rocket: "there". Secret: bring here to there.
 * Caretaker Lular H'minee, "Secret: Space"
 * Accompanies the N-Space Compression technology

 * Manifold harmonic fields: within, the true nature of the universe becomes apparent. Layers: within layers. Worlds: within worlds. Inside: the heart of everything opens, and everything opens to it.
 * Caretaker Lular H'minee, "Resonance: Power"
 * Accompanies the Secret Project, "The Manifold Harmonics"

Manifold Usurpers

 * Risks of Flowering: considerable. But rewards of godhood: who can measure?
 * Usurper Judaa Marr, "Courage: To Question"

 * Humans: correct in making leap from wealth as currency to wealth as energy. But logic failure: wealth ultimately is extension of desires, fluctuating with emotions and state of mind. Desires: when all are supported in purely adaptable system, true wealth is achieved.
 * Usurper Judaa Marr, "Human: Nature"
 * Accompanies the Adaptive Economics technology

Other

 * Preliminary analysis indicates that our rivals have developed a safe and reliable method to simulate conditions existing on the interior of a stellar mass. The fabrication and transmutation of materials possible in such an environment guarantees significant industrial and military applications.
 * Probe Team Operations Directorate, Top Secret Report
 * Accompanies the Matter Compression technology

 * We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
 * Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)
 * Accompanies the Bioenhancement Center facility

 * I swear sometimes they're watching me.
 * Bozon Pete, Shift Foreman, Metagenics Biomachinery Division
 * Accompanies the Self-Aware Machines technology

 * I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment.
 * Anonymous, Datalinks
 * Accompanies the Habitation Dome facility
 * This particular passage was written by lead designer Brian Reynolds, prior to the development of the game.

 * It is not uncommon to see patients undergo permanent psychological trauma in the presence of the Sphere, before the nerve stapler has even been strapped into position. Its effect on the general consciousness of the culture is profound: husbands have seen wives go inside, and mothers their children. Dr. Xynan left the surface of the sphere semitranslucent for a reason. You can hear them in there; you can see them. It is a thing of terrible beauty.
 * Baron Klim, "The Music of the Spheres"
 * Accompanies the Punishment Sphere facility

 * Please don't go. The Drones need you. They look up to you.
 * Heard when the player quits the game

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I merged the content of Thai proverb with this article as requested. Nearly all of it was already here anyway. I added only one proverb, and added variations on meanings to a few others. I make no warranty on the translations, as I do not speak Thai, but I made no changes in the Thai text or the transliterations. I did make a few changes in the English translations, chiefly to correct grammar. I would appreciate it if our Thai-speaking audience would review my changes and possibly elaborate on them. Thank you. — Jeff Q (talk) 06:06, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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I have corrected the proverb "กงกำกงเกวียน -- kong kum kong kwean". The correct proverb is "กงเกวียนกำเกวียน -- kong kwean kum kwean". For more information about this proverb please look at http://www.royin.go.th/th/knowledge/detail.php?ID=1517.

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Marcia Anne Cross (born March 25, 1962, in Marlborough, Massachusetts) is an American actress. In the television show Desperate Housewives, her role was as Bree Hodge.

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 * Sorry. I'd much rather be gay than sleep with you just to prove I wasn't.
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Polybius

Polybius [Πολύβιος] (c. 203 BC – 120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period noted for his work The Histories, which covered the period of 264–146 BC in detail. The work describes the rise of the Roman Republic to the status of dominance in the ancient Mediterranean world and includes his eyewitness account of the Sack of Carthage in 146 BC.

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 * In all human affairs, and especially in those that relate to war, ...leave always some room to fortune, and to accidents which cannot be foreseen.
 * The General History, Book II, Ch. 4 (trans. by Hampton)

 * It is a course which perhaps would not have been necessary had it been possible to form a state composed of wise men, but as every multitude is fickle, full of lawless desires, unreasoned passion, and violent anger, the multitude must be held in by invisible terrors and suchlike pageantry. For this reason I think, not that the ancients acted rashly and at haphazard in introducing among the people notions concerning the gods and beliefs in the terrors of hell, but that the moderns are most rash and foolish in banishing such beliefs.

 * This is a sworn treaty made between us, Hannibal … and Xenophanes the Athenian … in the presence of all the gods who possess Macedonia and the rest of Greece.
 * Histories, VII, 9:4 (Loeb, W.R. Paton)

 * How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?
 * Histories, IX, 35:2 (Loeb)

 * In the past you rivalled the Achaians and the Macedonians, peoples of your own race, and Philip, their commander, for the hegemony and glory, but now that the freedom of the Hellenes is at stake at a war against an alien people (Romans), ...And does it worth to ally with the barbarians, to take the field with them against the Epeirotans, the Achaians, the Akarnanians, the Boiotians, the Thessalians, in fact with almost all the Hellenes with the exception of the Aitolians who are a wicked nation... ...So Lakedaimonians it is good to remember your ancestors,... be afraid of the Romans... and do ally yourselves with the Achaians and Macedonians. But if some the most powerful citizens are opposed to this policy at least stay neutral and do not side with the unjust.
 * Histories, IX, 37:7-39:7 (Loeb)

 * Had previous chroniclers neglected to speak in praise of History in general, it might perhaps have been necessary for me to recommend everyone to choose for study and welcome such treatises as the present, since men have no more ready corrective of conduct than knowledge of the past. But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others. Evidently therefore no one, and least of all myself, would think it his duty at this day to repeat what has been so well and so often said. For the very element of unexpectedness in the events I have chosen as my theme will be sufficient to challenge and incite everyone, young and old alike, to peruse my systematic history. For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans in less than fifty-three years have succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government — a thing unique in history? Or who again is there so passionately devoted to other spectacles or studies as to regard anything as of greater moment than the acquisition of this knowledge?
 * How striking and grand is the spectacle presented by the period with which I purpose to deal, will be most clearly apparent if we set beside and compare with the Roman dominion the most famous empires of the past, those which have formed the chief theme of historians. Those worthy of being thus set beside it and compared are these. The Persians for a certain period possessed a great rule and dominion, but so often as they ventured to overstep the boundaries of Asia they imperilled not only the security of this empire, but their own existence. The Lacedaemonians, after having for many years disputed the hegemony of Greece, at length attained it but to hold it uncontested for scarce twelve years. The Macedonian rule in Europe extended but from the Adriatic region to the Danube, which would appear a quite insignificant portion of the continent. Subsequently, by overthrowing the Persian empire they became supreme in Asia also. But though their empire was now regarded as the greatest geographically and politically that had ever existed, they left the larger part of the inhabited world as yet outside it. For they never even made a single attempt to dispute possession of Sicily, Sardinia, or Libya, and the most warlike nations of Western Europe were, to speak the simple truth, unknown to them. But the Romans have subjected to their rule not portions, but nearly the whole of the world and possess an empire which is not only immeasurably greater than any which preceded it, but need not fear rivalry in the future. In the course of this work it will become more clearly intelligible by what steps this power was acquired, and it will also be seen how many and how great advantages accrue to the student from the systematic treatment of history.
 * The date from which I propose to begin my history is the 140th Olympiad [220 - 216 B.C.], and the events are the following: (1) in Greece the so‑called Social War, the first waged against the Aetolians by the Achaeans in league with and under the leadership of Philip of Macedon, the son of Demetrius and father of Perseus, (2) in Asia the war for Coele-Syria between Antiochus and Ptolemy Philopator, (3) in Italy, Libya, and the adjacent regions, the war between Rome and Carthage, usually known as the Hannibalic War. These events immediately succeed those related at the end of the work of Aratus of Sicyon. Previously the doings of the world had been, so to say, dispersed, as they were held together by no unity of initiative, results, or locality; but ever since this date history has been an organic whole, and the affairs of Italy and Libya have been interlinked with those of Greece and Asia, all leading up to one end. And this is my reason for beginning their systematic history from that date.

 * For what gives my work its peculiar quality, and what is most remarkable in the present age, is this. Fortune has guided almost all the affairs of the world in one direction and has forced them to incline towards one and the same end; a historian should likewise bring before his readers under one synoptical view the operations by which she has accomplished her general purpose.

 * I observe that while several modern writers deal with particular wars and certain matters connected with them, no one, as far as I am aware, has even attempted to inquire critically when and whence the general and comprehensive scheme of events originated and how it led up to the end. I therefore thought it quite necessary not to leave unnoticed or allow to pass into oblivion this the finest and most beneficent of the performances of Fortune. For though she is ever producing something new and ever playing a part in the lives of men, she has not in a single instance ever accomplished such a work, ever achieved such a triumph, as in our own times. We can no more hope to perceive this from histories dealing with particular events than to get at once a notion of the form of the whole world, its disposition and order, by visiting, each in turn, the most famous cities, or indeed by looking at separate plans of each: a result by no means likely. He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace.

 * We can get some idea of a whole from a part, but never knowledge or exact opinion. Special histories therefore contribute very little to the knowledge of the whole and conviction of its truth. It is only indeed by study of the interconnexion of all the particulars, their resemblances and differences, that we are enabled at least to make a general survey, and thus derive both benefit and pleasure from history.

 * All things are subject to decay and change.
 * The General History of Polybius as translated by James Hampton' (1762), Vol. II, pp. 177-178

 * When a state after having passed with safety through many and great dangers arrives at the higher degree of power, and possesses an entire and undisputed sovereignty, it is manifest that the long continuance of prosperity must give birth to costly and luxurious manners, and that the minds of men will be heated with ambitious contests, and become too eager and aspiring in the pursuit of dignities. And as those evils are continually increased, the desire of power and rule, along with the imagined ignominy of remaining in a subject state, will first begin to work the ruin of the republic; arroagance and luxury will afterwards advance it; and in the end the change will be completed by the people; when the avarice of some is found to injure and oppress them, and the ambition of others swells their vanity, and poisons them with flattering hopes. For then, being inflamed with rage, and following only the dictates of their passions, they no longer will submit to any control, or be contented with an equal share of the administration, in conjunction with their rules; but will draw to themselves the entire sovereignty and supreme direction of all affairs. When this is done, the government will assume indeed the fairest of a ll names, that of a free and popular state; but will in truth be the greatest of all evils, the government of the multitude.
 * The General History of Polybius as translated by James Hampton' (1762), Vol. II, pp. 177-178

 * The only method of learning to bear with dignity the vicissitudes of fortune is to recall the catastrophes of others.
 * Polybius. The Histories of Polybius, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. London, New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889. Book I, Chapter 1

Quotes about Polybius

 * [Polybius is] a great historian, a very great orator, and best of all as a philosopher.
 * Lodovico Domenichi, dedication to Polibio Historico Greco (Venice, 1545), quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 144

 * Whensoever he gives us the account of any considerable action, he never fails to tell us why it succeeded, or for what reason it miscarried; together with all the antecedent causes of its undertaking, and the manner of its performance; all which he accurately explains.
 * John Dryden, The Character of Polybius (1692), quoted in The Works of John Dryden, Vol. XVIII (1808), p. 44

 * [Polybius] digresses, interrupts himself, is diffuse, and often explicitly teaches rather than tells a story. But his lessons are always worthwhile ones.
 * Justus Lipsius, Notes (1589), quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 145

 * Polybius mentions Plato’s theory, but his picture of the transformation of good constitutions into bad is more Aristotelian: the good forms—monarchy, aristocracy, politeia—turn into their bad opposites—tyranny, oligarchy, mob rule. Polybius had no interest in the search for a philosopher-king and was not concerned to explain why perfection could not last forever. Utopia was uninteresting; since it never existed, it could teach no lessons. Polybius knew that the works of man are imperfect; sooner or later even the Roman Empire will decay, probably sooner rather than later. The destruction of Carthage brought tears to Scipio’s eyes, even as he ordered its completion; and Virgil’s Aeneid is surely a reflection on the theme of Troy, Carthage—and Rome? The question was how the Romans had thus far escaped what seemed to be their inevitable fate. They had begun with a botched constitution: they established elected kings with few checks. Nonetheless, their ancient kings had not become tyrants; they had been expelled. Even then a mixed constitution was not instituted by a Roman Lycurgus, and all of a piece, but evolved by trial and error. How had the Romans done it? Prompted by Livy, who himself was much in debt to Polybius, Machiavelli asked just that question.10 The question remains important even after we reject cyclical (indeed any or all) theories of history; states can recover from unpromising beginnings, and it is worth knowing how they do it. It was obvious to Polybius that Rome had done it; his problem was to square the facts with the theory.
 * Alan Ryan, On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present (2012), Ch. 4 : Roman Insights: Polybius and Cicero

 * Polybius's picture of the motors of political change is persuasive if not taken rigidly, and it provides a rationalization of Roman history: leaders who rise by their talents will (at least initially) live like their fellows and arouse no hostility, while those who inherit a throne will separate themselves from everyone else and arouse envy. They will be opposed by men of the upper class affronted by the insolence of their king—or kings, since Polybius knew that Sparta and Rome had been ruled by a collective monarchy. When they are overthrown, their aristocratic supplanters will rule in their stead. That aristocracies degenerate into oligarchies is the most common complaint against aristocratic governments, and often leveled at their modern descendants, the elected aristocrats who occupy the seats of power in the modern democratic world. Readers will find less persuasive Polybius’s claim that when an oligarchy is overturned, democracy invariably follows. He says that the memory of the tyranny of kings will be too fresh in everyone’s mind for there to be a reversal of the cycle from oligarchy to monarchy, but this is empirically unconvincing; it turns the unusual experience of Athens and Rome into a principle. We are all too familiar with situations in which a disgusted public turns to a dictator, though it has to be said in Polybius’s favor that “oligarchy-democracy-dictatorship” is perhaps the most common cycle of all.
 * Alan Ryan, On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present (2012), Ch. 4 : Roman Insights: Polybius and Cicero

 * When he talks of war, which is the favourite subject and darling of history, how like a general and perfect master in that trade does he acquit himself!
 * Sir Henry Sheeres (d.1710), preface to The History of Polybius (London, 1693), quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 145

 * [Polybius] is not content to narrate; he also instructs, fulfilling two functions, those of the historian and the philosopher.
 * Gerardus Vossius, Greek Historians (1650), quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 145

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William R. Looney III

General William R. Looney III (born 1949) is a United States Air Force general. He was Commander, Aeronautical Systems Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (2003–2005). In 2005, he assumed the command of Air Education and Training Command (AETC), Randolph AFB, Texas.

Quotes

 * If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs [surface-to- air missiles]. They know we own their country. We own their airspace…We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there’s a lot of oil out there we need.
 * Comments about the bombing of Iraq in the late 1990s, which he directed. Interview Washington Post (August 30, 1999); quoted in Rogue State, William Blum, Common Courage Press, 2005, p. 159.

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I removed the following comment from the article as too POV for a descriptive comment here:

 * [Referring to the brutal mass-murder of hundreds of civilian Iraqi men, women and children during 10,000 sorties by American/British war criminals planes in the first eight months of 1999.]

It also actually does not even seem to have been descriptive at all in the context of the quote to which it was appended, no matter what one's opinions of the war might be. ~ Kalki 20:32, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * It was descriptive of the quote, but it was also too POV. I will change it. :::Thanks for removing it. Done deal.--Alan J. Franklin 20:53, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Ramsey Clark

William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927 – April 9, 2021)  was an American lawyer, activist and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965.

Quotes

 * A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
 * New York Times, 2 October 1977

 * The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
 * There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
 * A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: You cannot have either until you have both.
 * As quoted in Attorney General and Rebel With a Cause, Dies at 93, By Douglas Martin, New York Times, (10 April 2021)

 * The consistent underlying psychology of the United States, which has held the lead in nuclear war capability and capacity throughout these 40 [now 75] years, should be understandable to anyone who has ever known a violent neighborhood bully. The government of Americans means to have its way through the use and threatened to use of superior force. It will lie. It will deceive. It will kill. It will escalate the threat and use of force to the highest level it dares. It will bluff, dangerous as that can be. It will do whatever is must to dominate. It does this in the face of the fact that its very preparation for a nuclear war may destroy all life. American war planners busily devised strategies for crippling the Soviet Union with revealing names like BROILER, FROLIC, SIZZLE, SHAKEDOWN, DROPSHOT, and VULTURE. The number of Soviet targets to be destroyed grew in number from 20 cities in December 1945 to 200 cities in 1949 and to 3261 total targets by 1957. The number of times the use of nuclear weapons has been contemplated by Americans is unbearable.
 * From His foreword in To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon’s Secret War Plans by Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod   ISBN 0-89608-321-7. (1987)

 * What is to be said of leaders with the mental acuity and moral perceptions revealed by these disclosed words and deeds? They are at best enemies of life without understanding. Psychologically, they disconnect all feeling for the beauty of the planet — a rose, an impala in motion, a baby’s hand, a Confucian analect, a Bach cantata, a parable of Jesus, pilgrims bathing in the Ganges, a crowd watching a soccer game in Rio, the subway in Moscow, the skyline in Manhattan. They cannot think or feel about the human meaning of what they do.,, A single Trident II submarine can inflict more death than all prior wars in history. Twenty-four missiles, launched while submerged, each with seventeen independently targeted, maneuverable nuclear warheads five times more powerful than the atom bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, can travel 5,000 nautical miles to strike within 300 feet of 408 predetermined targets. Nuclear winter might follow even if no other weapons are used.No nation or individual can be permitted to possess the power to destroy the world. An imperative need is for an informed and active public struggling for its right to survive. Public ignorance and apathy is “as much a concern for survival of the species as the unthinkable power to destroy the world wielded by a few men in a mindless manner”
 * From His foreword in To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon’s Secret War Plans by Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod   ISBN 0-89608-321-7. (1987)

 * American aggression had already created incalculable levels of “misery for the world”; that “the poor of the planet made poorer, dominated and exploited by the foreign policies of the U.S. and its rich allies;” that “the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a war of aggression, an offense called ‘the supreme international crime’ in the Nuremberg Judgment.
 * Speaking in 2004 in Iraq, quoted in Ramsey Clark Described His Government As Humanity’s Ever More Threatening and Treacherous Enemy in Life/Philosophy, by Jay Janson, CounterCurrents (21 April 2021)

 * You know, the Nuremberg Tribunal called the war of aggression the supreme international crime, and it is. And George W. Bush has waged a war of aggression against Iraq. He’s killed more than 100,000 people. Are their lives worth nothing? Can we have a moment of silence in memory of all the people who have died in Iraq because of the criminal acts of George W. Bush in waging this war of aggression? Every moment of their lives is fraught with danger right now because of us. The world is the most dangerous place it’s ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back. We can’t wait four more years.  There can’t be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the people out, killed them, thousands. We don’t know how many. They won’t even bother to count who’s been killed or how many, or estimate how many. They just keep killing. Almost every day we’re reading about another checkpoint where some family got wiped out because they didn’t do what they were supposed to do, according to the military there.
 * Quoted in Ramsey Clark Described His Government As Humanity’s Ever More Threatening and Treacherous Enemy by Jay Janson, CounterCurrents, (Clark was speaking at an ANSWER Coalition protest of the 2nd inauguration of G.W. Bush Jr in January 2005)  (21 April 2021)

 * Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961, that we would torture people that way, and on the instructions of the president of the United States and his highest legal advisers. “Torture is OK,” they said. “Go for it, fellas.” If we can’t renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn’t work anymore... We’ve got to do more than take back the Constitution. There has to be accountability for what’s happened. The Constitution says that the president, vice president and other officials of the United States shall be removed from office upon impeachment for and conviction of high crimes and misdemeanors.... If you care about the Constitution, you better start talking to your member of the House of Representatives and say impeachment now is essential to the integrity of the United States government and to the future of the United States. We’ve had more than 500,000 people sign on “Vote to Impeach.” We need to get 5 million, and we need to get 5 million on there quick. And then the Congress will react.
 * As quoted in Ramsey Clark Described His Government As Humanity’s Ever More Threatening and Treacherous Enemy by Jay Janson, CounterCurrents, (Clark was speaking at an ANSWER Coalition protest of the 2nd inauguration of G.W. Bush Jr in January 2005)  (21 April 2021)
 * The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back.
 * "There can't be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the people out, killed them, thousands. We don't know how many."
 * Democracy Now interview, January 21, 2005

 * He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt.
 * BBC interview, 28 November 2005, about the torture and murder of 148 men and boys near the mainly Shi'ite town of Dujail, Iraq in 1982.

 * I think we're destroying higher education by making it high-tech rather than high-humanity. What we need to do is realize that we now have the capacity to produce more than we need with fewer and fewer people working at it. We need to spend more time on the humanitarian side of how we live together in peace, how we learn to love each other, how we benefit from studying different cultures and different histories, and enriching ourselves as individuals that way, rather than just pressing for money and fame... It's a dead-end road that will destroy us. We don't need all those jobs, you know. We need to build a public throughout the world that has a better understanding of fundamental values, and history, and culture, and not in high-tech manufacturing of unnecessary necessities.
 * Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer interview, filmed April 10, 2013

Quotes about Ramsey Clark

 * Ramsey Clark, who championed civil rights and liberties as attorney general in the Johnson administration, then devoted much of the rest of his life to defending unpopular causes... died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93... Mr. Clark... shunned a government limousine in favor of his own beat-up Oldsmobile, set an ambitiously liberal course as attorney general.. He filed the first lawsuit to force a school district — Dale County, Ala. — to desegregate or else lose its federal school aid. He went on to file the first voting rights and school desegregation suits in the North.... He oversaw the drafting of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1968 — better known as the Fair Housing Act — which addressed housing discrimination... Mr. Clark went into private legal practice and soon devoted more and more of his time to representing the disadvantaged and the unpopular, including Alaskan Natives, war resisters, rioters at the Attica prison in New York State and Lyndon LaRouche... In 1972...Mr. Clark... publicly criticized American conduct of the [Vietnam] war. ... In 2011, he condemned NATO’s bombing campaign against Qaddafi’s government. In 2013, he said Iran had no intention of building a nuclear bomb and denounced sanctions against that country. Later, he protested lethal attacks by unmanned American drone aircraft on other nations... In 2008, the United Nations General Assembly awarded Mr. Clark its Prize in the Field of Human Rights, which it gives every five years to human rights defenders.
 * Ramsey Clark, Attorney General and Rebel With a Cause, Dies at 93, By Douglas Martin, New York Times, (10 April 2021)

 * Mr. Clark often told voters what they did not want to hear. He advocated gun control legislation in speeches to hunters and told defense industry workers that their plants should be closed... Mr. Clark was the author or co-author of several books, including “The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf” (1992) and “The Torturer in the Mirror” (2010)... He was also one of the most quotable public figures of his generation, many of his pronouncements tending toward aphoris..
 * Ramsey Clark, Attorney General and Rebel With a Cause, Dies at 93, By Douglas Martin, New York Times, (10 April 2021)

 * It is likely that well before Clark took his bizarre positions in support of highly repressive, violent, and intolerant political systems and their leaders, he came to the conclusion that the United States was the most dangerous and reprehensible source of evil in the world. This overarching belief led to the reflexive sympathy and support for all the enemies and alleged victims of the United States. They include dictators of different ideological persuasion noted above, whose inhumane qualities and policies Clark was unable to discern or acknowledge, let alone condemn. It was sufficient for Clark's moral accounting that if these dictators were opposed to (and allegedly victimized by) the United States, they deserved and earned his sympathy."
 * Paul Hollander, From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship, pg. 272 (2016)

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I just wanted to thank Tabib for establishing the formatting and most of the content of this article, and Kalki for helping me to get it to its most appropriate title (not to mention adding a few quotes himself). — Jeff Q (talk) 21:14, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out  bir dəli bir quyuya daş atdı, yüz ağıllı çıxarda bilmədi [Is this an Azerbaijani proverb? I don't think so! - Not all wisdom that glistens in the muck should be taken up!]

This is an Azerbaijani proverb.Atabeg00 (talk) 12:07, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

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