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Bar Amand: The Messiah has come! A man was dead but now he lives.
Uriah: I was crippled, and now I walk.
Old Aram: I was blind, and now I see.
Soldier: Who has done this?
Old Aram: The man called Jesus.

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Jack Ridley: Put the spurs to her, Chuck.

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Matthew: I think you prefer when the world "together" means not "a million," but just two.

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H.W. Plainview: How much are we gonna pay them?
Plainview: Who's that?
H.W. Plainview: Sunday family.
Plainview: Well, I'm not gonna give them oil prices. I'll give them quail prices.

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Alexander Hamilton: Where are you taking me?
Angelica Schuyler: I'm about to change your life.
Alexander Hamilton: Then by all means, lead the way.
Eliza Hamilton: Elizabeth Schuyler. It's a pleasure to meet you.
Alexander Hamilton: Schuyler?
Angelica Schuyler: My sister.
Eliza Hamilton: Thank you for all your service.
Alexander Hamilton: If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.

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Nicholas Earp: Remember this, all of you. Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur: The days of the frontal attack are over. Only a mediocre commander would use it. Your good commanders do not turn in heavy losses.

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P.L. Travers: I will not have her called Cynthia, absolutely not. It feels unlucky. It should be something warm, a bit sexy. How about Mavis?

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Airman Spencer Stone: I don't know, ma'am. I just didn't want my family finding out that I died hiding under a table.

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Agrippa: Well versed in the natural sciences and mathematics. She speaks seven languages proficiently. Were she not a woman one would consider her to be an intellectual.

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The King: One day you are your father's property. One day you are your husband's property. It must be difficult.

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Jimmy Malone: He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way!

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Archy Hamilton: I'll see you when I see you.
Frank Dunne: Yeah. Not if I see you first.

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Carl: When you're black, it's almost like having a gun pointing right at your face.

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Neil Armstrong: You're down here and you look up and you don't think about it too much. But space exploration changes your perception.

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Juliet Ashton: Do you suppose it's possible for us to already belong to someone before we've met them?

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Pocahontas: It would've been better if we'd never met. None of this would have happened.
John Smith: Pocahontas, look at me. I would rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

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Farmer: Every time one of these Lancasters fly over, my chickens lay premature eggs.

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