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Heydrich: Look at the world and tell me the pleasures of sanity.

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Mitchell Garabedian: If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse them.

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King John: I am the blood! I am God's right hand! And you will never dictate to me how I am to be a king.

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Gloria Gaines: Everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler.

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Li Mu Bai: The things we touch have no permanence. My master would say: there is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

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Tsar Nicholas II: All my life. My whole life I've done what you want. I gave mother up. You hated her, so we don't see her anymore. I gave my friends up. Do you know I haven't a single friend? I've got my family. Four girls, one sick boy... and you. I ask myself, before I eat, sleep, or change my clothes, is this what Sunny wants? And it never is. There's always more! Sweet Jesus how much do you want of me?

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Anne Frank: I want to go on living even after I'm dead.

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Yogi Berra: Ninety percent of the game is half mental.

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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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Caliph's brother: Thoughts have wings. No one can prevent them from flying.

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John Newton: Although my memory's fading, I remember two things. I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

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Intertitle: Second Part - Reconstruction. The agony which the South endured that a nation might be born. The blight of war does not end when hostilities cease.

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Theodore Roosevelt: Will you be so kind, Mr Crane, with your camera, to take a picture of this regiment on this glorious hill, for we will always live in its shadow.

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Samson: Your arms were quicksand. Your kiss was death. The name Delilah will be an everlasting curse on the lips of men.

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Bligh: The Royal Navy is not a humorous institution, sir, and insubordination is no laughing matter.

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John McCain: You're one of the leaders of the party now, Sarah. Don't get co-opted by Limbaugh and the other extremists. They'll destroy the party if you let them.

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Pierre Cauchon: Joan, be careful, you're not helping yourself by refusing to submit to our judgment.
Joan of Arc: You, who claimed to be my judges, you'll be careful, for you too one day will be judged.

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