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I didn't see an active thread for this, so here goes.

Post your favorite quotes! These can be funny, inspirational, anything really. Some good places for them are books, movies, comics, speeches, etc. Do try to include the author's name, if you can find it. If not, put Anonymous.

I'll start:

"I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world."
- Idi Amin

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful". Seneca, Roman orator and historian, c.37 B.C.

"[Female canines] ain't nothin' but hoes and tricks" - Dr Dre
"So! They laugh at my boner, will they?! I'll show them! I'll show them how many boners the Joker can make!" - The Joker, Batman #66, 1951
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
"[posing as a teacher, introducing himself to class] So, physics! Physics, eh? Physics! Phyyyysics! [repeatedly says the word "Physics" before catching himself] I hope you're getting all this down!" - The Doctor, Doctor Who (David Tennant)

"One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic" - attributed to Joseph Stalin

"Experience is the teacher of all things" -Julius Caesar

"I have not yet begun to fight!" -John Paul Jones

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty" -Plato

"Only the dead have seen the end of war" -attirbuted to Plato

"Knowledge is power" -Francis Bacon

Folks always quote deep/philosophical stuff but, I tell you, I quote Dre on a daily. Not a day goes by that I don't.