"Somebody has to save our skins!"
--Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan
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"The universe is not only stranger than we suppose, it is stranger than we can suppose."
Common mis-remembering of a quote by biologist J.B.S. Haldane
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"Thus, I give up the spear!"
--Moby Dick
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Wer meines Speeres
Spitze fürchtet,
durchschreite das Feuer nie!
--Richard Wagner, Die Walküre
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Notung! Notung!
Neidliches Schwert!
Zum Leben weckt' ich dich wieder,
tot lagst du
in Trümmern dort,
jetzt leuchtest du trotzig und hehr.
--Richard Wagner, Die Walkuere
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"The opera might have been Siegfried."
--Dr. John Hamish Watson (with Nicholas Meyer acting as his executor and literary agent), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
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"I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality."
I Timothy 5:21, King James Bible
"I discharge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality."
I Timothy 5:21, King James Bible (erratum version)
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"Very well discharged."
--A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare (probably)
Zeroth: You must play the game.
First: You can't win.
Second: You can't break even.
Third: You can't quit the game.
--Common variant of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics (as formulated with a little help from Isaac Asimov)
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The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the man who is gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?
Rickston Slade: No.
The Doctor: In that case, allons-y.
--Doctor Who, Starship Titanic
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THE DIG: Shared!
"It is accomplished!"
God (sometimes played by Max von Sydow)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (probably)
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"Another galaxy, another time."
--Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, by Alan Dean Foster and George Lucas (1976)
"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes."
--Princess Leia Aquilae of Organa Major
"So You Want To Be A Hero"
--subtitle of Hero's Quest (as published by Sierra On-Line, 1989)