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"Sometimes I get so close and yet it seems I'm shut out of the important
    things."
'It's a useless feeling. The Ambassador is definitely going through some
    changes. He even looks different.'
"Indeed and now with the military starting to stampede over everyone and
    everything."
'People coming and going and secret meetings.'
"You never know what it's all about until later. When it's too late."
'And they never listen to us.'
"'Makes me nervous'"
'Same time tomorrow?'
"Sure."
        -- Lennier and Vir, "The Fall of Night"
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"Good, but they should be better. I want all our fighters put through
    training exercises 3 times a week from now on. With everything that's
    going on, we need them in top fighting condition."
'I'll see to it personally. And if they don't get any better, I'll start
    issuing live ammo. That should have a very inspirational effect.'
        -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "The Fall of Night"
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"Your authority end at Babylon 5, Captain. Do not start getting delusions
 of grandeur. You will not survive them."
        -- Londo (to Sheridan), "The Fall of Night"
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"Look into his eyes sometime. He can see how fast things are moving. For
 Londo it's like being on a wild horse. You don't want to get thrown so
 you hang on even harder. He's trapped. You know half the time I'm so
 furious with the guy I could break his neck. The other half I feel sorry
 for him."
        -- Garibaldi (re: Londo), "The Fall of Night"
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"What do you know. Maybe somebody actually read my report for a change."
'Don't hold your breath.'
        -- Sheridan and Garibaldi, "The Fall of Night"
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"It was jet black. Shade of black so deep your eye just kinda slides off
 it. And it shimmered when you looked at it. A spider big as death and
 twice as ugly. When it flies past, it's like you hear a scream in your
 mind. I saw it too."
        -- Keffer (to Mitch), "The Fall of Night"
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"Mr. Welles, as you say, I have access to a great deal of information. So
    I 've been very much aware of the Nightwatch for some time now. What
    I saw worried me and now I see that me worries were justified."
'Commander.'
"I've gotten where I am through hard work and loyalty. Loyalty to the
    people I work with, loyalty to Earth, and loyalty to the ideals of
    the alliance. What you're asking violates all three. I guess it
    maybe takes me a few more years to get my own ship, but one way or
    another I'll get there and when I do, I'll have done it honestly.
    Without selling out a friend or betraying a confidence. My hands
    are clean. Are yours?"
        -- Ivanova and Mr. Welles, "The Fall of Night"
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"I'm here to sign a non-aggression treaty with the Centauri. Before I leave
 here there will be an Earth-Centauri alliance that will guarantee peace
 for Earth. We will at least know peace in our time."
        -- Frederick Lantze, "The Fall of Night"
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"I don't believe it. A non-aggression treaty with the Centauri. That's
    like trying to make nice with a piranha. Sooner or later it's going
    to turn around and bite you."
'All this does is get us out of the way so the Centauri can move in on 
    the other worlds. Earth wants peace and they're willing to sacrifice
    everybody else in order to get it.'
        -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "The Fall of Night"
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"Everyone said it was impossible to take out a Minbari War Cruiser, but
 you did it. The way things are going, I figured it might be nice to
 have a reminder that the impossible is possible."
        -- Ivanova (to Sheridan), "The Fall of Night"
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"I apologize. I'm sorry. I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an
 unwarranted attack. I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire
 on a station filled with a quarter million civilians including your own
 people. And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all
 straight to hell. As with everything else, it's the thought that counts."
        -- Sheridan, "The Fall of Night"
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"For millions of years, the Vorlons have visited other worlds, guided
    them and-"
'Manipulated us? Programmed us so that when we saw them, we would react
    the right way?'
        -- Delenn and Sheridan, "The Fall of Night"
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"And you Ambassador Mollari, what did you see?"
'Nothing. I saw nothing.'
        -- Drazi and Londo, "The Fall of Night"
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"It was the end of the Earth year 2259 and the war was upon us. As
 anticipated, a few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced,
 the Centauri widened their war to include many of the non-aligned
 worlds. And there was another war brewing closer to home. A personal
 one whose cost would be higher than any of us could have imagined. We
 came to this place because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.
 By the end of 2259 we knew that it had failed. But in so doing, it
 became something greater. As the war expanded, it became our last, best
 hope for victory. Because sometimes peace is another word for surrender
 and because secrets have a way of getting out."
        -- Ivanova, "The Fall of Night"