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'''''-The nature of this device is not clear to me.'''''
'''''-Well, shift your spanners and let's have a look at the thing.'''''
'''''-Now, then. Hydroplastic power transmission, controls attached to a timer and what looks like an encoder, a pressure chamber at the centre, surrounded by...'''''
'''''-If we remake this join...''''' ''he began, enthusiastically. The Squat laid a restraining hand on his arm.''
'''''-I really wouldn't recommend it. You see, I interpret this device as an unusually complex plasma bomb, and that cable you're holding goes direct to the arming mechanism.'''''
'''''Revered Ancestor, what is our best course in this situation?'''''
'''''- I have seen this but once before. Six hundred years before your birth, your revered ancestor Lord Thyngrim, whose name you bear in your turn, was on the world of Dioscis Theta. I was younger then, undistinguished amongst the mass of the Brotherhood.'''''
'''''And how did Lord Thyngrim win the day?'''''
'''''- I cannot tell you how to win as he did, but if you don't mind uncomfortable truths, I can tell you how to avoid losing as he did.'''''<br>
'''''"You see my power" Grunhag quoth, "Let Imbach see and quake in fear, and pay me treasure, wealth and slaves" he added with a sneer.'''''
'''''Lord Uri sat in Imbach's hall, his brow as hard as knotted flint.''''''''''"No Ork shall take our folk as slaves, nor what we win from laden rock, while one in Imbach still draws breath" he told proud Grunhag "Nothing here is yours except an Ork-shaped hole and headstone with your name."'''''
'''''Called Imbach to the vain Eldar, "Your enemy is at our gates. Come to our aid against your foes, together let us lay them low." The Eldar never made reply, but left fair Imbach to the Orks. "We fight alone, then" Uri said "Our friends leave us to die".'''''
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{{IntWik|Destination=Zitate Squats}}
This article collects all quotes concerning the [[Squat]]s. The quotes are organized by an alphabetical order using he authors name. Any quotes witha with an unnamed author are at the beginning of the list.
|align=center|''The Tech-adept rewound the tendrils into the stump of his wrist.''
''The short figure at his side bustled up to the console''
''The Tech-adept sidled uncomfortably away, and the Squat peered into the casing.''
''The Tech-adept, who was looking over the Squat's shoulder by this time, shot an manipulative tendril into the machine, seizing a frayed and broken end of a cable.''
|align=center|[[Warhammer 40,000 Compendium]] page 169
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|align=center|''The young Warlord turned to the ancient Squat beside him.''
''The Living Ancestor half-closed his rheumy eyes.''
''asked the Warlord with some impatience. The Orks were getting closer. The Ancestor shook as he chuckled.''
|align=center|Warhammer 40,000 Compendium page 170
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|align=center|'''G'''
|align=center|Lord '''Grumni''', Bruggen [[Stronghold]]
|'''We have always been a race of traders. It is natural to us that we should trade the fighting skills of our Brotherhoods. As well as bringing us a profit, it also allows our youngsters to gain experience and honour, and to keep alive the skills which our strongholds may one day need for their own defence.'''
|align=center|Warhammer 40,000 Compendium page 172
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|align=center|'''H'''
|align=center|Warlord '''Hargir''' son of Brond, Gruben Stronghold
|'''You people do well at war because you treat it as a religion. We do well because we treat it as a business. It is just a matter of outlook.'''
|align=center|Warhammer 40,000 Compendium page 171
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|align=center||align=center|from ''The Fall of Imbach''|align=center|'''''So Grunhag led his host to Wyss, encamped upon the plain of Swend. Proud Hargan and rich Erlach fell, destroyed and ravaged and defiled.'''''
|align=center|Warhammer 40,000 Compendium page 166
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|align=center|'''K'''
|align=center|Warlord '''Kettri''' son of Egil, Grindel Stronghold
|''On one side of me stand my Homeworld, Stronghold and Brotherhood; On the other, my ancestors. I cannot behave otherwise than honourably.''
|align=center|Warhammer 40,000 Compendium page 164
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|align=center|'''S'''
|align=center|Engineer '''Sindri''', Massunich Lodge, Engineers Guild
|'''An Engineer travels light because it's easier. Instead of lugging several thousand tools around with you, get where you're going, look at the job, decide what tools you need, and make them on the spot. Far more practical.'''
|align=center|Warhammer 40,000 Compendium page 177
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|align=center|'''T'''
|align=center|Warlord '''Thargrim''' "the red", Traitor Squat commander
|'''Do not think we bear you any ill-will. You were simply in the right place at the right time - or the wrong time from your point of view.'''
|align=center|Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p178
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