“They say if you play that Microsoft CD backward you hear satanic messages. But that’s nothing, if you play it forward it installs Windows.”

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"We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
"Thanks, Dad," he said.

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“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

— Unknown

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Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free.
-- David Graeber

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“By the look of him, he didn't die easily.”

“It is never easy to die.”

— Colby and Max, in “Image of the Fendahl”

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“When I employed you, you led me to believe you were a hardened criminal.”

“As My Lady knows, before I entered your service I was found guilty of a large number of offenses.”

“Then have the courage of your convictions. Drink.”

— Lady Peinforte and Richard, in “Silver Nemesis”

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“Where will he go now?”

“Somewhere else.”

— Borusa and Leela bid farewell to the Doctor, in “The Invasion of Time”

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I am whatever I am made to be. This time Lady Peinforte called me Nemesis, so I am retribution.

— Nemesis, in “Silver Nemesis”

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Have you noticed how people's intellectual curiosity declines sharply the moment they start waving guns about?

— The Doctor, in “The Horns of Nimon”

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The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.

— The Master, in “The Five Doctors”

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Everyone has a “point” nowadays. I am a man of action, not reason!

— Yrcanos, in “Mindwarp”

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Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

— The Doctor, in “The Two Doctors”

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“Oh, you shouldn't be worried; Time Lords have 90 lives.”

“How many have you got through?

“About 130.”

— The Doctor and Romana, in “The Creature From the Pit”

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Didn't you find two angry men stuck to my car?

— The Doctor, in “The Ambassadors of Death”

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“I refuse to be worried by a renegade like the Master. He's an unimaginative plodder.”

“His degree in cosmic science *was* of a higher class than yours.”

“Yes, well, I was a late developer.”

— The Doctor and the unnamed Time Lord, in “Terror of the Autons”

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Enlightenment brings whatever one desires. I desire to be amused.

— Captain Wrack, in “Enlightenment”

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“There was even a picture of a tree, a fine thing.”

“Simply a primitive way of producing oxygen. Thank the Company, we have no need of trees on Pluto.”

— Citizen Cordo and the Gatherer, in “The Sunmakers”

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There are times in our relationship when I feel an interpreter wouldn't come amiss.

— Mel, to the Doctor, in “The Ultimate Foe”

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Between 1945 and 2000, the US intervened in 81 consequential elections worldwide, including eight times in Italy, five in Japan, and many more in Latin America. Between 1958 and 1975, military coups, many of them American-sponsored, changed governments in three dozen nations—a quarter of the world’s sovereign states—fostering a distinct “reverse wave” in the global trend toward democracy.

- Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

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Why is a mouse when it spins?

— The Doctor, in “Robot”

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“Are you telling me you don't know what year it is?”

“If I knew, I wouldn't ask. Don't be obtuse, man!”

— Laurence Scarman and the Doctor, in “The Pyramids of Mars”

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Is that all you can say? She was a living being, and now what is she? A component!

— Romana, in “The Armageddon Factor”

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“You know, I had a feeling that Niever was actually expecting to hear an answer to his prayer.”

“There wouldn't be much point in praying if you didn't.”

“I could quote you a few theologians who'd give you an argument on that.”

— The Doctor and Leela, in “The Face of Evil”

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There is nothing purer and more unsullied, Madam, than the desire for revenge, but, if you follow the metaphor, I've thrown a pebble into the water, perhaps killing two birds with one stone and causing ripples that will rock the High Council to its foundations.

— The Master, in “The Ultimate Foe”

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The generators were built by the old Eternity Perpetual company. They were designed to last forever; that's why the company went bankrupt.

— Vorg, in “Carnival of Monsters”

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You are concerned about the fate of the blue whale and the natterjack toad, yet the obvious, most defenceless part of creation, the kingdom of plant life, receives no protection at all.

— Harrison Chase, in “The Seeds of Doom”

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It was only a small explosion. They couldn't understand how blowing up the art room was a creative act.

— Ace, in “Dragonfire”

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The purpose of good #caregiving isn't merely to perform tasks, it is to support quality of life, offer #kindness, and help the other person accept love.

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When a person living with #dementia asks the same question repeatedly, listen to the question differently and you may learn more about the needs underlying the question itself.

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