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Richard the Butler: Great changes are easier than small ones. Sir Francis Bacon.

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JFK (1991)

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Jim Garrison: White is black, and black is white.

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Lenka Fafková: We've been fighting the occupation in our own ways.

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Farmer: Every time one of these Lancasters fly over, my chickens lay premature eggs.

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Dr. Janusz Korczak: But what of the children, Dr. Zabinski? My heart is no different than yours, I don't believe. I should not be here. They should not be here. You should not be here.

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Fielding: Father, he's done this penance long enough, and well, the other brothers think the same.
Gabriel: But he doesn't think so, John. Until he does, neither do I.

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Dr. Burghart Kroll: Your pen. Your sword.

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Theodore Roosevelt: Will you be so kind, Mr Crane, with your camera, to take a picture of this regiment on this glorious hill, for we will always live in its shadow.

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Neil Armstrong: You're down here and you look up and you don't think about it too much. But space exploration changes your perception.

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Eamon de Valera: The Irish people established the Irish Republic. It can only be disestablished by the Irish people.

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King Henry viii: Why are you here for her?
Mary Boleyn: Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me.

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Michael Moore: There are nearly 50 million Americans with no health insurance. They pray every day they don't get sick because 18,000 of them will die this year, simply because they're uninsured. But this movie isn't about them. It's about the 250 million of you who have health insurance. Those of you who are living the American Dream.

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Allison Jimeno: How am I supposed to tell Bianca that her father is dead?

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Richard Nixon: I let them down. I let down my friends, I let down my country, and worst of all I let down our system of government, and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but now they think; 'Oh it's all too corrupt and the rest'. Yeah... I let the American people down. And I'm gonna have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life. My political life is over.

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Samson: Your arms were quicksand. Your kiss was death. The name Delilah will be an everlasting curse on the lips of men.

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Leo Tolstoy: Despite good cause for it, I have never stopped loving you.
Sofya Tolstaya: Of course.
Leo Tolstoy: But God knows you don't make it easy.
Sofya Tolstaya: Why should it be easy? I am the work of your life, you are the work of mine. That's what love is.

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Walsingham: You were the most powerful man in England. And you could have been greater still, but you had not the courage to be loyal, only the conviction of your own vanity.

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