"Why didn't you WARN me?"
"We knew you'd be to modest to volunteer."
"Modest, hell! You just figured I'd be easier to nail if I wasn't a moving target!"
"Ethan of Athos," Lois McMaster Bujold.
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"We are who we choose to be."
Another Bujold novel, but I can't recall which one.
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"Oh, was that drink you gave him a stimulant? I couldn't tell."
"...you mean he's like that ALL THE TIME?!?"
and later:
"No one knows their limits until they've gone beyond them."
"...*you* would think that, wouldn't you?"
"The Warrior's Apprentice," LMB again.
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"Trapped in a basement on Jackson's Whole with a sex-starved teenage werewolf. There was never anything about this in any of my Academy training manuals..."
"Labyrinth," collected in "Borders of Infinity" by LMB
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"In the marketplace of ideas, it is not the government's job to put a thumb on the scales."
Picked up on USENET.
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"This is my lover, the king of France."
"Oh? Well, I'm the Lord of Time."
Dr Who, "The Girl in the Fireplace."
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"Don't you just love how casual a demo man can be with a roll of duct tape?"
Schlock Mercenary
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"...and if I EVER catch you giving away the donation gifts without *getting* a donation again, I will turn you upside down, plant my feet firmly in your armpits, and use you as a pogo stick!"
Susan Ivanova, during a Station Pledge Drive (PBS-style) in a piece of B5 fanfic that should still be on my hard drive *somewhere*....
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"The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and
prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books are ighthouses on the dark sea of Time."
- Jeffrey Robbins, in the "Gargoyles" episode "A Lighthouse on the Sea of Time"
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"An' then Chicken@little.com, he come scramblin outta the terminal room screaming "The system's crashing! The system's crashing!"
        -Uncle RAMus, 'Tales for Cyberpsychotic Children'
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You want to be a hero, with the axe about to fall
You'd buy it for the love and glory, for it all.
You want to dress in black and lose your heart beyond recall
Hunt a dream through rain and thunder, on your honor, for it all.
-Verse from "For it All," featured in the novel "War for the Oaks" by Emma Bull, and on the final Cats Laughing album "Another Way to Travel."
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"The light at the end of the tunnel is muzzle flash."
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"We knew you'd be to modest to volunteer."
"Modest, hell! You just figured I'd be easier to nail if I wasn't a moving target!"
"Ethan of Athos," Lois McMaster Bujold.
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"We are who we choose to be."
Another Bujold novel, but I can't recall which one.
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"Oh, was that drink you gave him a stimulant? I couldn't tell."
"...you mean he's like that ALL THE TIME?!?"
and later:
"No one knows their limits until they've gone beyond them."
"...*you* would think that, wouldn't you?"
"The Warrior's Apprentice," LMB again.
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"Trapped in a basement on Jackson's Whole with a sex-starved teenage werewolf. There was never anything about this in any of my Academy training manuals..."
"Labyrinth," collected in "Borders of Infinity" by LMB
-----------------------------------------------------
"In the marketplace of ideas, it is not the government's job to put a thumb on the scales."
Picked up on USENET.
-----------------------------------------------------
"This is my lover, the king of France."
"Oh? Well, I'm the Lord of Time."
Dr Who, "The Girl in the Fireplace."
-----------------------------------------------------
"Don't you just love how casual a demo man can be with a roll of duct tape?"
Schlock Mercenary
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"...and if I EVER catch you giving away the donation gifts without *getting* a donation again, I will turn you upside down, plant my feet firmly in your armpits, and use you as a pogo stick!"
Susan Ivanova, during a Station Pledge Drive (PBS-style) in a piece of B5 fanfic that should still be on my hard drive *somewhere*....
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"The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and
prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books are ighthouses on the dark sea of Time."
- Jeffrey Robbins, in the "Gargoyles" episode "A Lighthouse on the Sea of Time"
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"An' then Chicken@little.com, he come scramblin outta the terminal room screaming "The system's crashing! The system's crashing!"
        -Uncle RAMus, 'Tales for Cyberpsychotic Children'
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You want to be a hero, with the axe about to fall
You'd buy it for the love and glory, for it all.
You want to dress in black and lose your heart beyond recall
Hunt a dream through rain and thunder, on your honor, for it all.
-Verse from "For it All," featured in the novel "War for the Oaks" by Emma Bull, and on the final Cats Laughing album "Another Way to Travel."
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"The light at the end of the tunnel is muzzle flash."
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