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“Polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”
― Steven Moffat

“I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night”
― T. Boone Pickens

“What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

“Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.”
― Hannah Arendt

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I