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"ISN, the galaxys most important network."
        -- ISN announcer, "Ship of Tears"
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"I can only wait so long."
"I thought your patience was infinite."
"Since space and time are curved, the infinite sooner or later bends
 back upon itself and ends up where it begun. And so have I."
        -- G'Kar and Ivanova, "Ship of Tears"
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"You know, if this keeps up, I'm gonna start thinking that people around
 here .. just don't like me."
        -- Bester to a welcome party, "Ship of Tears"
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"I was expecting the captain."
"He sent me."
"Did he ? He has a better sense of humor than I thought."
        -- Bester and Ivanova, "Ship of Tears"
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"You know, it's come to my attention lately that we have a common enemy.
 There's an old saying: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. President Clarke
 isn't calling the shots back home, there're others whispering in his ear.
 I don't know who they are or where they are from, but do I know they are
 not human. I have only heard one name for them: Shadows. My guess is you
 know more about them than I do, but you are probably not interested in
 sharing that information. Are you ?"
        -- Bester to Ivanova, "Ship of Tears"
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"You know the real reason you don't like me, Commander ? It's the jealousy
 of evolution. Normals like you are obsolete. Future belongs to telepaths
 .. and I intend to make sure that future happens. One way or another."
        -- Bester to Ivanova, "Ship of Tears"
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"But we can't be on top if the aliens get there first and some of them have.
 Through Clarke they infiltrated the Psi-Corp. And apparently they have their
 own plans for my telepaths. Whoever these aliens are, they are interfering
 with *my* plans for the future. I won't have it! And so, I need someone who
 feels the same way I do. .. Which brings me to you. You'd like to hurt them,
 Commander ? Because I think I know how. If you are up for it.
        -- Bester to Ivanova, "Ship of Tears"
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"So, how did you find about all of this ?"
"I'm .. a telepath. .. Work it out."
        -- Sheridan and Bester, "Ship of Tears"
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"We knew that the Shadows, the ancient enemies, as you call them, had
 returned. We knew they were rebuilding their forces preparing to strike. We
 knew that they were seeking allies and that the Centauri were the first to
 enlist. When you came back from the area near Z'ha'dum, and warned us about
 the enemies' return, we could've spoken out. We could've confirmed your
 story. We chose to remain silent."
"Who is 'we' ?"
"The Grey Council. I was still a part of them at that time. Once the decision
 was made, I could not disobey."
"So you stayed silent. And with the help of these .. Shadows, the Centauri
 destroyed my world. Enslaved or killed millions of my people."
"G'Kar, if we *had* spoken out, if we *had* come public with what we knew,
 most of the other worlds would never have believed us. It would have changed
 *nothing*. Your world would still have fallen. With one critical difference.
 There are billions of Narns still surviving on your world. If we had exposed
 the Shadows, they could have struck openly before we had time to prepare,
 and *none* of your people would have survived. G'Kar, under the Centauri
 there is at least the hope of survival. With the Shadows, there is no hope
 at all. We had to choose between the death of millions and the death of
 *billions*, whole planets."
        -- Delenn and G'Kar, "Ship of Tears"
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"'Some must be sacrificed for all to be saved.' First I took that as a
 revelation for the future. Now I see that it is as much about how we got
 here as about where we are going. I think that one sentence is the greatest
 burden I have ever known."
        -- G'Kar to Delenn, "Ship of Tears"
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"You are right, nothing would've been changed. Except that my people would now
 be a dead race."
"You have come a long way, G'Kar. Further than I would've guessed. Sheridan's
 promise binds me as well it does him. We will take you into the Council,
 G'Kar. And someday, when all this is over, perhaps you will find it in your
 heart to forgive me."
"Perhaps, but not today."
        -- G'Kar and Delenn, "Ship of Tears"
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"Can we intercept ?"
"The White Star is powered my a magnetic and gravitational system like all
 Minbari cruisers. You can use a magnetic discharge to capture the escaped
 vessel."
"A simple 'yes' would've sufficed, Mr. Lennier. Grab it."
        -- Sheridan and Lennier, "Ship of Tears"
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"The machine says: kill, to protect. The sign hurts us. We can not hear
 the machine."
"What machine ?"
"*Live*. In my mind. I am the machine. We join, we flight. It is dark.
 Terrible. Help me, please, make it stop talking in my mind."
        -- Carolyn and Franklin, "Ship of Tears"
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"What did you see inside her mind before she passed out ?"
"Those things. Those *Shadow* vessels. How much do you know about them ?"
"Delenn said they are some kind of organic technology and they use living
 beings as .. as their central operating system."
        -- Sheridan, Bester and Ivanova, "Ship of Tears"
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"Your war .. is now my war."
        -- Bester to Sheridan and Ivanova, "Ship of Tears"
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"'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.'"
"You sound dubious ?"
"He's still a Psi-Cop. I don't trust him, never will. He has invested
 interest in helping us for now, but once this is all over, he'll turn
 on us. You do know that ?"
        -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "Ship of Tears"
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"Hello, hello, hello, and .. hello."
"Michael, you look like the proverbial cat that ate the equally proverbial
 canary."
        -- Garibaldi and Sheridan, "Ship of Tears"
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"I've got it. I've got it. I've got it. It's right here. It's right here."
"Do not thump the book of G'Quan. It is disrespectful."
        -- Garibaldi and G'Kar, "Ship of Tears"
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"We have a weapon. My God, people, we have a weapon."
        -- Sheridan, "Ship of Tears"
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"The Shadows have just started attacking Brakiri space, openly, they are
 not hiding anymore. They are finally on the move."
        -- Ivanova, "Ship of Tears"
