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The Beginning or the End picture

End Title Card: To the people of the 25th Century: The was THE beginning. Only you, and those who have lived between us and you, can know THE END.

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Guilford: Tell me, did you see his chest?
Jane: Yes, it was marked.
Guilford: No, it wasn't. It was branded. A mark burnt into him with a red-hot iron.

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German Aide: Excuse me for interrupting, but ... British paratroopers have apparently landed. Three kilometers from here.
Field Marshal Model: Why should they do that? There's nothing valuable here. I! I am valuable here! They have all come to capture me!

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Columbus: Why do you want to help me?
Santangel: Faith, hope, charity. But greater than all these is banking.

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages picture

Intertitle: Our play is made up of four separate stories, laid in different periods of history, each with its own set of characters. Each story shows how hatred and intolerance, through all the ages, have battled against love and charity.

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Kingpin: OK, so there's this 10 year old kid and he's a prodigy. Good with words, plays piano, recites Lincoln. But the twist is, he's a 50 year old midget! The joke's on us.
Manny Torres: That is good.

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Derek Bentley: Let him have it, Chris.

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Harry Kane: What'll you do if he does strike it rich?
Cynthy Waters: I don't know.
Harry Kane: I don't remember if it was Shakespeare or Aristotle, but one of them once said, "No one loves the man who he fears."

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Jim Jones: Be assured in that choice is not ours now. It's out of our hands. Die with respect. Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity. Don't lay down with tears and agony. Stop this hysterics. Keep your emotions down. Children, it will not hurt if you'll be quiet.

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Lt. Schill: It is a good feeling for a soldier if he knows that a girl is crying for him.

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Father Hussman: How come I never see you around church? You don't believe?
Charles Lindbergh: Well, yes, I believe. I believe in an instrument panel, a pressure gauge, a compass, things I can see and touch. I can't touch God.
Father Hussman: You're not supposed to! He touches you.

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Col. Mathieu: To know them means to eliminate them. Consequently, the military aspect is secondary to the police method.

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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre picture

Capone: Wanna know something Jack? I like a guy who can use his head for something beside a hatrack.

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Einstein and Eddington picture

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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Jesus: Hate, anger, fear. Those are lies they use to turn you against each other. When you set aside the hate they force you to carry, that's when you know love is our true nature.

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Saigo: We can die here, or we can continue fighting. Which would better serve the emperor?

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John Walcott: We do not write for the people who send people's kids to war. We write for the people whose kids get sent to war.

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Julius Ceasar: When Alexander the Great was ten years younger than I am today, he had conquered the entire civilized world.
Vercingetorix: At your age, he was dead.
Julius Ceasar: All the more reason to hurry.

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Charles Eastman: I am acting in the interest of my people, following the example you set for me.
Henry Dawes: Do you really think you know better than I what is in the interest of these people?
Charles Eastman: Yes. I am one of them, Senator.
Henry Dawes: You're no more a Sioux Indian than I am.

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