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Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
Amon Goeth: You think that's power?
Oskar Schindler: That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... Pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
Amon Goeth: I think you are drunk.
Oskar Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power.

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Brigadier: You don't think we're just going to walk out of India.
Gandhi: Yes. In the end, you will walk out. Because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.

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Christopher McCandless: Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... Give me truth.

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Frank Stokes: You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they'll still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it's as if they never existed. That's what Hitler wants and that's exactly what we are fighting for.

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Jimmy Hoffa: You always charge a guy with a gun! With a knife, you run away.

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Elvis Presley: If I can't move, I can't sing.

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Caproni: Airplanes are beautiful dreams, engineers turn dreams into reality.

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Elton John: Real love's hard to come by. So you find a way to cope without it.

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Charles Porter: Mr. Skiles, is there anything you would have done differently?
Jeff Skiles: Yes. I'd do it in July.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world.
Albert Einstein: I remember it well. What of it?
J. Robert Oppenheimer: I believe we did.

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Calamity Jane: Excitement? Why, I got more arrows in the back of that coach than a porcupine has got stickers.

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Stuart Long: Like anything, it's the struggle that brings you closer to God. I never shied away from no fight. Teaching priests to rat on suffering men, they're getting closer to Judas than Jesus.

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Professor Freund: A court ought not be affected by the weather of the day, but will be by the climate of the era.

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Judge in Dream: I accuse you... of a wasted life.
Papillon: Guilty... guilty... guilty.

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Eddie Edwards: I've been kicked off every team before I even got a chance to prove myself.

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Henning von Tresckow: We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

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