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Some people are scared of anybody who runs free.

MacGyver, MacGyver, ep. 1x03 "Thief of Budapest"

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It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.

Native American Proverb

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem

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We've fought long enough. Maybe it's time we started talking to one another.

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5, ep. 1x17 “Legacies”

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Human thought is so primitive, it's looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies. That kind of makes you proud, doesn't it?

Men in Black

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Starvation consumes an army more often than battle, and hunger is more savage than the sword (Saepius enim penuria quam pugna consumit exercitum, et ferro saevior fames est)

Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris 3.3

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

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Riker: Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment." Cochrane: That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that? Riker: You did, ten years from now.

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

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There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it.

Princess Merida, Brave

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Fate protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise.

William T. Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation, 2x11 “Contagion”

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Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

P. D. James

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Ignorance is bliss, he thought. No, that can’t be right. What I don’t know right now is driving me nuts. Ignorance is only blissful if you don’t know you’re ignorant.

Captain John Geary in Jack Campbell, Fearless (The Lost Fleet #2)

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Dr. Watson: We should go home. Sherlock Holmes: I concur. Let's go home...via Switzerland. What better way to start a war at a peace summit?

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

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McKay: "Oh. I am gonna curl up in bed with the largest sandwich I can find." Teyla: "Shall I just explain to the rest of the Wraith left on the base that you are unavailable to fight?"

Stargate Atlantis, 2x01 “The Siege (Part III)”

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Sharona: We're never going to get away with this! They're never going to believe we're really married. Monk: We have nothing in common. I annoy you all the time. Why wouldn't they believe it?

Monk, 2x15 “Mr. Monk Gets Married”