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“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”

"Don't let ask for the moon we have the stars""
Now Voyager. Bette Davis was a great actress throughout the thirties, forties etc. I think she won an Oscar for Jezebel.
"He's grown greedier over the years. Before he only wanted my money; now he wants my love as well. Well, he came to the wrong house - and he came twice. I shall see that he does not come a third time."

Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke"
Rebecca wrote "He's grown greedier over the years. Before he only wanted my money; now he wants my love as well. Well, he came to the wrong house - and he came twice. I shall see that he does not come a third time."
Olivia de Havilland in "The Heiress"
"Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."

"People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them."

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

"Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia."

"Little Nelly got a hot reception. Four big shots made improper advances toward her, but she defended her honor with great success."

"We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning, I'm making waffles!"

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

"Nothing ever changes, except man. Your technical accomplishments? Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold. I am such a man."

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

"Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for... your sister. So, you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side... then perhaps she will... "

"We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life."

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
Princess Leia from Stars Wars
"A boy's best friend is his mother"
"A boy's best friend is his mother"

“Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.”

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

If we are alone in the universe then I'd have to say that the universe aimed very low and settled for very little.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." (a favourite quote of mine)

"the lunatic is on the grass ...
the lunatic is on the grass ...
remembering days, and daisy chains and laughs ..
got to keep the loonies on the path ..."

"As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch."

"If you ever call me sister again I'll have you strangled in your sleep."

"Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day."

"The differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you."

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

"The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph."
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"Don't let ask for the moon we have the stars"