"Me? Gongaga" - Zack Fair, Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, 2007

"Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." - Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions, 1957

"Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night, 1947

"Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down. / My care is loss of care, by old care done; / Your care is gain of care, by new care won: / The cares I give I have, though given away; / They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay." - William Shakespeare; Richard II, Act IV, Scene 1; 1595

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... - Carl Sagan; The Demon-Haunted World, 1995