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To stand against the Shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides. To defend the Malkieri while one drop of blood remains. To avenge what cannot be defended.

~~the ancient oath of Malkieri kings, from *The Eye of the World*, first book of *The Wheel of Time*, by Robert Jordan

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I have wasted time, now Time doth Waste me.

~~William Shakepeare, from *Richard II*

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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

~~Kurt Vonnegut, *Cat's Cradle*

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"Nolite to bastardes carborundorum" (don't let the bastards grind you down)

~~*The Handmaids Tale* by Margaret Atwood

"I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

~~Woody Allen

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"You cannot pass! I am servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the shadow! You cannot pass!"

~~Gandalf, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

"Coincidence: You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on."

~~Chad C. Mulligan, the _Hipcrime Vocab_, from Brunner's *Stand on Zanzibar*

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"Listen, three eyes, don't try to outweird me. I get stranger things than you
free with my breakfast cereal."

~~Zaphod Beeblebrox, from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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"Be wise and fear not."

~~Wosley, from William Shakespeare's *King Henry VIII*

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"The art of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

~~Douglas Adam's *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look."

~~Terry Pratchett, *Small Gods*

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"Fate will unwind as it must."

~~Beowulf

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"He said 'Why should I tarry?'
And smiled with tranquil eye.
In destinies sad or merry,
True men can but try."

~~_Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_

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"What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"

~~Gandalf, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

~~Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

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"Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."

~~Jude 1:24-25

"`How do you feel?' he asked him.
`Like a military academy,' said Arthur, `bits of me keep passing out.'"

~~Douglas Adam's *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

~~Shakespeare

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"Peace! I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."

~Tybalt, *Romeo and Juliet* Act 1 Scene 2

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"You cannot rule the world El-ahrairah, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy,
Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must
catch you--digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks,
and your people will never be destroyed."

~~Richard Adams, Watership Down

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"The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."

~~Fredric Brown

"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns."

~~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., from _Cat's Cradle_

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"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."

~~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., from _Cat's Cradle_

"Not all who wander are lost."

~~JRR Tolkein's *Lord of the Rings*

"I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself."

~~Aragorn, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

"I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn. If by life, or death, I can save you I will."

~~Aragorn, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

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"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."

~~from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan

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"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

~~Gandalf, from JRR Tolkein's *Lord of the Rings*

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

~~Douglas Adams's *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

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"Thou fool, no living man may hinder me!" -The witch king of Angmar
"But no living man am I." -Eowyn

~~JRR Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings

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"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?"
Death thought about it "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are Nice."

~~Terry Pratchett, *Sourcery*

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"Dangerous!" cried Gandalf. "And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord."

~~Gandalf, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

"This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

~~William Shakespeare, from *Hamlet*

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"And the water thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land."

~~Gurney Halleck, from Frank Herbert's *Dune*

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"True words aren't eloquent.
Eloquent words aren't true.
Wise men don't need to prove their point.
Men who need to prove their point arent wise."

~~Lao Tzu, *Tao Te Ching*

"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing."

~~from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

"He is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect in the Western world."

~~Douglas Adam's *So Long and Thanks for All the Fish*

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"He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again."

~~William Shakespeare, Hamlet,(Act I, scene ii)

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"One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them.
One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
In the land of Mordor, where shadow lie."

~~JRR Tolkein's *Lord of the Rings*

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"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."

~~Joseph Heller, *Catch-22*

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"Fear is the mind-killer."

~~a Bene Gesserit saying, from *Dune*

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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crownless again shall be king.

~~JRR Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings

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"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."

~~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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"Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?"

~~Gollum, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

"How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children"

~~Book by Lewis B. Frumkes

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"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."

~~Manual of MuadDib, from Frank Herbert's *DUNE*

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"This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all the stories about him, and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of the indifference within it, before succumbing to external attack.

~Frank Herbert's *Children of Dune*

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

~~Groucho Marx

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"Fair queen without flaw,
She glanced with eyes of grey.
A seemlier one that he saw,
In truth no man could say."

~~of Queen Guinivere in _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_

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"You are to be servants unto God, not servants unto servants!"

~Frank Herbert's *God Emperor of Dune*

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"Let us live in greatness
And courage, or here in this hall welcome
My death!"

~~Beowulf

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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four."

~~George Orwell, from _1984_

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"Come not between the nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the Houses of Lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured and thy shriviled mind be left naked to the lidless eye."

~~The Witchking of Angmar, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

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"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's compete because it's ended here."

~~--from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

"I have graven it in the hills and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock."

~~Edgar Allen Poe, from *The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym*

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"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

~~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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"You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasently like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasent about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."

~~Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, from Douglas Adam's *HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

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"I am glad you are here with me, Sam. Here at the end of all things."

~~Frodo, on Mount Doom, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

~~Gimli the Dwarf, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

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"Death didn't answer. He was looking at Spold in the same way as a dog looks at a bone, only in this case things were more or less the other way around."

~~Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"

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"They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand."

~~Gurney Halleck, from Frank Herbert's *Dune*

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"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of."

~~Arthur Dent, from Douglas Adams' *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

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"Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no color now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council."

~~Gandalf, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

"It's not so much an afterlife," said Arthur, "More a sort of apres vie."

~~Douglas Adam's *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

~~*The Path of Daggers*, book eight of the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan

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