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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Aaron Allston

Tycho, we’re about to achieve a tremendous victory we don’t want.” “We’ll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn’t fail when he tried to.” “Thanks.” Wedge & Tycho
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Achieve Antilles Biography General Tycho Victory Want
I really can’t complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can’t get paid to be smart.
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Dumb Paid Smart Stupid
Luke, I don’t want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die.” Mara
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Curiosity Exception Something Want Way Wrong
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
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First Heal Hurt Sometimes
Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I’ll shoot him under the table.” Han (to Leia)
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Fake Leia Shoot Table
Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.” “No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission.” “We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.
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Mind Mission Rogue Running Squadron Unless Wraith
No, they can’t. They can’t be Luke Skywalker.
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Luke No Skywalker
If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?
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Domain God Hack Server Tampered
At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface.” “Crash.” “Quite slowly.” Face & Luke
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Down Effort Face Final Repulsor Surface
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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Indistinguishable Magic Science Sufficient Written
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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Awful Difference Something Tragedy
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you’ve constructed an entire philosophy of evil.” –Luke Skywalker
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Evil Justify Mean Philosophy Time
Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.
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Rogue Run Running Unless Wraith
The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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Analysis Itself Thing
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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Fingernail Hanging Large Luck Way
No one pays me to be nice.
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Nice One Liner Pay Positive

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

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