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

Aaron Allston

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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Analysis Itself Thing
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
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Bomb Father Hate Kill Story Wedge
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
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone’s satisfaction.
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Believe Everyone Feminist People Process
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
No, General. I’m not your subordinate. And what I’m coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles
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Danger Subordinate Violence Wedge
Life is like an analogy.
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Analogies Life Positive
Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.
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Ennui Inside Lethargy Waging War
No, they can’t. They can’t be Luke Skywalker.
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Luke No Skywalker
There are two types of people in the world, and I’m one of them.
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People Sad Two Type World
Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.
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Rogue Run Running Unless Wraith
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
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First Heal Hurt Sometimes
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
The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.
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Doctor Frankenstein Good New Friendship Thing
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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Indistinguishable Magic Science Sufficient Written
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas.” “You haven’t heard all our ideas.” Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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Generation Heard Idea Sound Thousand Worst
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
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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Fierce First Incompetent Lawyer
I don’t know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.
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Figure Jedi Know Master
That was interesting.” “He deliberately countermanded one of my orders.” “He was furtive.” “Sneaky, even.” “We’ll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet.” Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
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Countermanded Furtive Interesting Order Sneaky Style
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
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
Definition of ‘Free’: You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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Definition Elect Free Pay Receive
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
The principle of Sturgeon’s Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
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Answer Crap Principle Problem Razor Simplest State
I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.
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Blow Case Kell Location Mark Something
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

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