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Thomas a Becket: It is here now, the supreme folly, this is its hour.

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Gloria Gaines: Everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler.

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The Stranger: Let's proceed with caution. These madmen could eat us.
The Time Traveller: They liked your hair.
The Stranger: Of course, I'm a writer. Writer's always have good hair.

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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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Richard Schoenfield: Hey Oppenheimer! Oppenheimer! You oughta stop playing God, 'cause you're no good at it, and the position's taken.

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Rochester: And yet you do not draw the moral of the incident.
Billy Downs: Which is?
Rochester: That any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense. Mark it well.

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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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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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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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Captain Alexei Vostrikov: We deliver, or we drown.

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Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire: I am her mother. After all, she is only a girl.

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Willy: You're overreacting. This was purely a business decision.
Colette: Isn't that what our whole marriage has been? Wasn't I the best investment you ever made? No dowry, but my God, she can write for her keep.

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Gustave: I'll never forgive you, you know.
Valerie: For what?
Gustave: For marrying him instead of me.

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End Title Card: To the people of the 25th Century: The was THE beginning. Only you, and those who have lived between us and you, can know THE END.

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Jim Jones: Be assured in that choice is not ours now. It's out of our hands. Die with respect. Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity. Don't lay down with tears and agony. Stop this hysterics. Keep your emotions down. Children, it will not hurt if you'll be quiet.

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German Aide: Excuse me for interrupting, but ... British paratroopers have apparently landed. Three kilometers from here.
Field Marshal Model: Why should they do that? There's nothing valuable here. I! I am valuable here! They have all come to capture me!

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