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A Night to Remember picture

Closing crawl: But this is not the end of the story - -For their sacrifice was not in vain. Today there are lifeboats for all, unceasing radio vigil and, in the North Atlantic, the International Ice Patrol guards the sea lanes, making them safe for the peoples of the world.

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Empress Elizabeth: Do you know what he said to me the day he was married?"Mother, say a prayer for me." And I said "what prayer shall I make for you?" And he said "Pray to God that I should never fall in love."

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Pathfinder: You have become the Pathfinder for the Dragon People. Good.
Ghost: I'm dying.
Pathfinder: Don't complain to me about it.

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Rachel Grover: Oh, Tammy Faye. You follow blindly. In the end, all you are is blind.

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The Alamo picture

William Travis: Take that ball to Captain Dickinson. We can reuse it.
Sgt. William Ward: You'll be picking that up yourself.

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Chomina: Tell me, Blackrobe, what does your dream say now?
Father Laforgue: I am too weary for dreams.
Chomina: You must. If you do not, how do you see the way ahead?
Father Laforgue: Put my trust in God. He will guide me all the way to paradise.
Chomina: But you have not seen this paradise. No man should welcome death. This world is a cruel place, but it is the sunlight. I am sorry I leave now.

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A.C.N.S.: Good old hood, she'll get them.

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54 (1998)

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Marguerite de Carrouges: My father told me my life would be blessed with good fortune. I'm married. I was a good wife. And then I was judged and shammed by my country.

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Gary Hart: This campaign is about the future. Not rumors, not sleaze, and I care about the sanctity of this process, whether you DO OR DO not.

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Carlos picture

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka 'Carlos': My name is Carlos. You may have heard of me.

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Mrs. Channing: Sugar, next time, let's take the Titanic.

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Demaratus, Exiled Spartan King: The Spartans will certainly fight, whether reinforcements arrive or not.
Xerxes, Persian King: Why, they are mad. I cannot think why you would want to be king of such an extraordinary people, Demaratus. I shall capture them alive and put them in cages and exhibit them all over Persia.

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Arthur Eddington: If the cloud breaks quarter past two tomorrow, we look up into the heavens, take photographs of the eclipse, we will be scientists at our work. We'll be looking at the poetry of existence. And if Einstein's right, the Universe will never look the same again.

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Undersecretary Martin Luther: Sir, this is Neumann of the Four Year Plan, a close associate of Reichsmarschall Goering. Neumann, I introduce Dr. Klopfer, a close associate of the Brown Eminence.
Erich Neumann: Brown... excuse me?
Klopfer: I represent Martin Bormann, the Party Chairman of the Thousand Year Plan.

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Alexey Pajitnov: Good ideas have no borders.

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Hunlun: My son has won the world. Still he must conquer that red-headed Jezebel.

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Colonel J.S. Wilson: Why do you want to be a saboteur, Max?
Max Manus: My country was stolen from me, Sir... and I want it back.

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