Home Everything I know in life I learned from Star Wars: X-Wing
1. Life is endless amounts of boredom and routine punctuated by moments of sheer terror. - Wedge Antilles
2. Referring to yourself in third person is a good way to manage your ego. - Ooryl Qyrgy
3. "You can't look dignified when you are having fun." - Wes Janson
4. When you have finally gotten a woman to kiss you, saying, "Now, that's more like it," is not the way to go. - Myn Donos
5. Being angry is all right, as long as you don't channel it in the wrong fashion. - Wedge Antilles
6. "The implacable enemy is the only one worth fighting." - Tal'dira
7. Coming from an odd family is an asset. - Shalla Nelprin
8. Anything good you do will soon become a duty. - Runt
9. "Pacifism for the sake of pacifism is the height of arrogant selfishness when that belief prevents you from acting to save others from harm." - Tycho Celchu
10. Luck is good, but Skill is better. - Wedge Antilles
11. Being gifted is not the same as being indispensable. - Corran Horn
12. There is no derogatory component to the nickname 'Piggy.' - Wedge Antilles
13. Math is a good thing…if you happen to be a genius. - Voort 'Piggy' Sa'Binring
14. Revenge is a powerful motivator.
15. Being shot down shouldn't change you from hunter to hunted. It should just change the direction you are coming from. - Corran Horn
16. Artificial shooting stars are bad luck. - Elassar Targon
18. Anytime you ask for strategy, you are given work to do. - Wes Janson
19. Honor and Loyalty will win out over indoctrination. - Lara Notsil
20. "You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits. You can't balance what a child did in innocence against
what a grown man has to do with the rest of his entire life." - Ton Phanan
21. Being able to speak Wookie saves a lot of time and annoyance. - Wedge Antilles
22. The sign of a perfect mission is boredom. It is only when things go wrong that it becomes interesting.
23. Taunting Star Destroyers is a good way to get reprimanded. - Kell Tainer
24. Being trapped shouldn't make you dead, just deadlier. - Corran Horn
25. "Cuteness should be preserved." - Ton Phanan
26. Learning to play a variety of musical instruments using only the power of your mind is a good way to pass the time. - Face Loran
27. One minute you're a General, the next a sheet metal worker. - Squeaky
28. Never allow yourself to think revenge is beneath anyone. - Wes Janson
29. For pranks, resources count just as much as experience, enthusiasm, and inventiveness. - Wedge Antilles
30. Wearing an Ewok as a bathing suit is a felony on some worlds.
31. "Few things make a male feel as grand as the opportunity to teach a young, fascinated female." - Dia Passik
32. "A leader who cannot rely on his gut instinct has no business leading others." - Wedge Antilles
33. It all boils down to the question of what's more important - accomplishing your mission because it's good for others, or because it's good for you. - Face Loran
34. "Learning to anticipate the reactions of your squad mates - emotional ones as well as physical reflexes - is a survival trait." - Myn Donos
35. "Sometime you rise above your material, sometimes you don't." - Face Loran
37. Two voices being 99.997% identical becomes merely a coincidence when a Wookie says so.
38. "You're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things.
That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for,
and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things." - Wedge Antilles
39. Having no respect for career politicians is a sensible attitude. - Airen Cracken
40. If commanded to procure a set of women's clothing, there is a strong likelihood you will end up wearing it.
Any hopes to the contrary are just self-delusion. - Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian
41. High romance, skulking, and impossibly shallow love affairs lose their appeal when there is too much competition. - Wes Janson
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