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Centurion picture

Bothos: Quintus, what's she doing?
Brick: She's a Pict and a woman - two good reasons not to trust her.

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Nelson Mandela: I have walked a long walk to freedom. It has been a lonely road, and it is not over yet. I know that my country, was not made to be a land of hatred. No one is born hating another person because the color of his skin. People learn to hate. They can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart.

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Lord Robert: Marry me.
Elizabeth: On a night such as this, could any woman say no?
Lord Robert: On a night such as this, could a queen say no?
Elizabeth: Does not a queen sit under the same stars as any other woman?

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Todd Beamer: Come on, guys, what are we waiting for? Let's roll. Come on, let's go already.

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Hunlun: My son has won the world. Still he must conquer that red-headed Jezebel.

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Guenter Wendt: We drill! We drill the hell out of everything. We drill and we drill until we know every step in our sleep - and then we drill some more.

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Sofya Tolstaya: Oh, Leovochka, why do you insist on dressing like that?
Leo Tolstoy: What do you mean, like what?
Sofya Tolstaya: Like a man who looks after the sheep.
Leo Tolstoy: It wasn't meant to offend you.
Sofya Tolstaya: You're a count, for God's sake.

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Lt. Ebbe Jensen: If they are old enough to go to war, they are old enough to clean up.

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Karan: Dad, please don't start this lecture.
Rajnath Singhania: SMS Generation! Say four lines, and they call it a lecture.

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Emil Hahn: Today, you sentence me! Tomorrow, the Bolsheviks sentence you.

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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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King Henry V: Customs curtsy to great kings. We are the makers of manners, Kate.

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United 93 picture

Honor Elizabeth Wainio: Hi, Mom, it's me. I'm on the plane that's been hijacked. I'm just calling to tell you that I love you, and goodbye. This really kind woman handed me the phone and she said to call you.

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Wilfried Böse: I didn't agree to this, I'm not a Nazi.

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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House picture

Mark Felt: The White House is packing all its crimes in separate little boxes. Watergate, the spying, the ugliness, the rot. Each thing in a different box so that no-one can put it together, so that no-one sees it's all connected. And no-one will care, but it's all the same big thing.
Sandy Smith: And Watergate? Just the gateway.

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Rachel Grover: Oh, Tammy Faye. You follow blindly. In the end, all you are is blind.

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Daniel: They have an afterworld of their own.
Father Laforgue: They have no concept of one.
Daniel: Annuka told me they believe that in the forest at night the dead can see. The souls of men hunt the souls of animals.
Father Laforgue: Is that what she told you? It is childish, Daniel.
Daniel: Is it harder to believe in than Paradise where we all sit on clouds and look at God?

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Reichsmarschall Hermann Wilhelm Göring: One German, a fine man. Two Germans, a party. Three Germans, a war. One Englishman, an idiot. Two Englishmen, a club. Three Englishmen, an Empire.

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Dick Goodwin: You know, money isn't everything.
Sandra Goodwin: I'm not the one who came home with a Chrysler catalogue.

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