The Hour of the Wolf |
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| "Our thoughts form the
universe, they always matter." G'Kar "Flesh is transitory. Flesh is a
prison. Flesh is... an instrument. Flesh can be
replaced." |
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Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi |
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| "Words have meaning and
names have power. The universe begun with a word, you
know. But which came first: the word or the thought
behind the word? You cant create language without a
thought and you can't concieve a thought without
language. So which created which and thus the
Universe?" Lorien "When we are born, we are
allocated a finite number of seconds. Each tick of the
clock slices off a piece of us. Tick. A possibility for
joy is gone. Tock. A careless word ends one path, opens
another. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Always running out of
time. Yours is almost used up. You're between seconds -
lost in the infinite possibilities between tick and tock.
Tick. You're alive. Tock ... Well, it was a good life,
but a short one. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick..." " -- The job now is to turn this around and make
it into something positive. My dad always told me that's
the only way you deal with pain; you don't surrender, you
don't fight it, you turn it into something positive. He
used to say: 'If you are falling off a cliff, you may as
well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose. -- '" "You can't turn away from death simply because
you're afraid of what might happen without you. That's
not enough. You're not embracing life, you're fleeing
death. So you're caught in-between, unable to go forward
or backward. Your friends need what you can be when you
are no longer afraid - when you know who you are, and why
you are, and what you want. When you are no longer
looking for reasons to live, but can simply be." |
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Into the Fire |
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| "To live on as we have
is to leave behind joy, and love, and companionship,
because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We
know it will turn to ash. Only those, whose lives are
brief, can imagine that love... is eternal.You should
embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest
gift your race has ever received." Lorien "In my experience, if you can not
say what you mean, you can never mean what you say. The
details are everything." "A Vorlon said understanding is a three-edged
sword: your side, their side... and the truth." |
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Epiphanies |
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| "Embrace the moment. In
the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own
time, it always does, but that's tomorrow. Give me today,
and I will be happy." Sheridan "I have seen what power does
and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal
to the other." "You know, the one thing in life that you can be
sure about is that you are going to make mistakes." |
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The Illusion of Truth |
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| "But the heart does not
recognise boundaries on the map or wars or political
policies. The heart does... as the heart does." Delenn about her relationship with Sheridan |
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Atonement |
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| "If the universe puts a
mystery in front of us as a gift, then politeness
requires that we at least try and solve it." Delenn |
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Lines of Communication |
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| "Dukhat says: 'When
there is good news we always ask if it's true, because it
is so difficult to believe. But when there is bad news we
rarely inquire because it's so easy to believe.'" Forell "Fighting a war is easy.
Destroying is easy. Building a new world out of what's
left of the old - that's what is hard." |
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Rumours, Bargains and Lies |
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| "Yes, we've disagreed,
even fought, but I would rather have someone who opposed
me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause
than someone who was always on my side because it was
expected and required." Delenn to Neroon |
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Moments of Transition |
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| "Dukhat said that in
every battle one side or the other must surrender
eventually. It's the natural order of things, There's no
dishonor in that, no shame." Delenn "You had forgotten the worker
caste, hadn't you? When our two sides fight, they're the
ones caught in the middle, forgotten that it's their time
to serve, to build, and to die. They built the temples we
pray in, the ships you fight in. They look to us to guide
their hands. But prayers are fleeting and wars forgotten.
What is built endures. They do not wish to conquer or
convert, only to build the future. " "Religion and war must act in the service of the
people, not the other way around." |
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No Surrender, No retreat |
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| "You may not believe
this, G'Kar, but all I ever wanted is what is right for
my world. I'm a patriot, as you are. I have made some
very poor choices in the last two years. Because I did
not think, those choices almost destroyed my world, and
yours. That is a humbling realization, G'Kar. If for the
single wrong word I can become the enemy, do I any longer
really understand who the enemy is?" Londo to G'Kar |
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The Exercise of Vital Powers |
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| "Nobody takes power.
They [leaders] are given power by the rest of us, because
we are stupid or afraid or both." William Edgars |
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Intersections in Real Time |
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| "It does prove though
how everything is a matter of perspective. You see what
you think is daylight, and you assume it's morning. Take
it away, you think it's night. Offer you a sandwich, if
it's convenient, you'll think it's mid-day. The truth is
fluid, the truth is subjective." Interrogator to Sheridan "The truth is
sometimes what you believe it to be, and other times what
you decide it to be. My task is to make you decide to
believe differently." "The ones who have done this to you, they're the
ones who are broken." "You know, it's funny I was thinking about what
you said. 'The pre-eminent truth of our age is that you
cannot fight the system.' But if, as you say, truth is
fluent, that the truth subjective, then maybe you can
fight the system as long as one person refuses to be
broken, refuses to bow down." |
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Between the Darkness and the Light |
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| "Politically, it is
very wise." "Morally, even wiser." "Politics and morality on the same side? That doesn't happen often, Delenn." Londo, G'Kar and Vir |
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Rising Star |
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| "I learned about
choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned
that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize
them, and that those choices have consequences, not just
for ourselves, but for others. We must assume
responsibility for those consequences." Sheridan "You do not make history. You
can only hope to survive it." |
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The Deconstruction of Falling Stars |
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| "You came all this way
just to say that?" "You came just as far to say less." "But this is extraordinary. There's so much more we'd like to ask you. So much more we'd like to know." "You do not wish to know anything. You wish only to speak. That which you know, you ignore because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, you invent." Two academics and Delenn "What we are is
not a matter of flesh, it's a matter of will." "Faith and reason are like your shoes. You can
travel further with both, than with just one." "Faith sustains us, in the hour when reason tells
us that we can not continue, that the whole of our lives
is without meaning." |
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