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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Aaron Allston

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
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
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
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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Fierce First Incompetent Lawyer
When all else fails, complicate matters
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Else Fail Failing Matter When
Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.
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Rogue Run Running Unless Wraith
Definition of ‘Free’: You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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Definition Elect Free Pay Receive
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
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
If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?
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Domain God Hack Server Tampered
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
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
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
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
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First Heal Hurt Sometimes
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

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