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Civilization IV

I was a bit sick this weekend so took it easy and looked over some of the games I had available. One I have played a few times is Civilization IV, which I believe I got free with my video card. It isn’t half bad and some things in it I find pretty neat. As one builds a city and researches technologies, each one has an interesting quote to go along with it, and it is even voiced by Leonard Nimoy. All of the quotes are pretty good, you can read them half-way down the page here: Civilization IV Quotes.

The ones I found most interesting are below.

“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back.”
- The Buddha

“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.”
- The Buddha

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
- William Shakespeare

“I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
- Aristotle

“One doesn’t discover new lands without losing sight of the shore.”
- Andre Gide

“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”
- Ali ibn Abi-Talib

“You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.”
- Al Capone

“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
- Sun-Tzu

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
- Winston Churchill

“Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.”
- Albert Einstein

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
- Galileo Galilei

“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense.”
- Napoleon, on Robert Fulton’s Steamship

“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
- Thomas Edison

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci

“Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”
- Steve Wozniak