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There are two types of people in the world, and I’m one of them.

Aaron Allston

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
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
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First Heal Hurt Sometimes
I’m content to stand on tradition. I’m even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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Content Feet Tradition Wipe
Life is like an analogy.
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Analogies Life Positive
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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Indistinguishable Magic Science Sufficient Written
Definition of ‘Free’: You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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Definition Elect Free Pay Receive
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
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
Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.
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Rogue Run Running Unless Wraith
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
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

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