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->For years I have railed against the use and manufacture of what I call "unitaskers" in the kitchen -- that is, devices that are basically created for one job and one job only. You buy these items, you use them, and then they simply pile up until you have to tear down your house and build another one.
-->--'''Alton Brown''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFeVlw2Ywg reviews Amazon's dumbest kitchen gadgets]]
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->Why the fuck would anyone specialise in shotguns when a shotgun is a situational weapon? What are you gonna do if there's an enemy more than ten feet away, throw your shoes at him?
-->--''WebVideo/ZeroPunctuation'' on ''Videogame/AlphaProtocol''

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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''

->'''Shaolin Abbot:''' What is the highest technique you hope to achieve?
->'''Lee:''' To have no technique.
-->-- ''Film/EnterTheDragon''
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'''Disgust''': [[SarcasmMode Great idea!]] Anger, Fear, Disgust... ''how are'' '''''we''''' ''supposed to be happy!?''\\

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'''Disgust''': [[SarcasmMode Great idea!]] Anger, Fear, Disgust... ''how are'' '''''we''''' ''supposed to be happy!?''\\happy!?'' Hmm?\\



'''Fear''': Guys... uh... (stammers incoherently) Here! You-you pretend to be Joy!\\

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'''Fear''': Guys... uh... (stammers incoherently) Here! (shoves Disgust to the controls) You-you pretend to be Joy!\\
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->'''Disgust''': Riley is acting so weird. Why is she acting so weird?\\
'''Anger''': What do you expect? All the islands are down!\\
'''Disgust''': Joy would know what to do.\\
'''Fear''': That's it! Until she gets back, we just do what Joy would do!\\
'''Disgust''': [[SarcasmMode Great idea!]] Anger, Fear, Disgust... ''how are'' '''''we''''' ''supposed to be happy!?''\\
'''Jill''': Hey, Riley, I've got good news! I found a junior hockey league right here in San Francisco, and get this: tryouts are tomorrow after school. What luck, right?\\
'''Anger''': Hockey?\\
'''Disgust''': [[OhCrap Uh-oh, what do we do?]]\\
'''Fear''': Guys... uh... (stammers incoherently) Here! You-you pretend to be Joy!\\
'''Jill''': Won't it be great to be back out on the ice?\\
'''Riley''': (Disgust presses a button, resulting in a sarcastic response) Oh, yeah. That sounds fantastic.\\
'''Fear''': What was THAT!? That wasn't anything like Joy!\\
'''Disgust''': Uh, because [[CaptainObvious I'm not Joy]]?\\
'''Fear''': Yeah! No kidding!
-->--''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''
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-->-- '''Major Motoko Kusanagi''', ''{{Ghost in the Shell}}''

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-->-- '''Major Motoko Kusanagi''', ''{{Ghost in the Shell}}''
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-->-- ''PennyArcade'', on the boss battles in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''

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-->-- ''PennyArcade'', ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', on the boss battles in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''
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-->-- ''Series/TopGear'' [[note]][[SubvertedTrope Turns out Clarkson is right; it is good at knocking down houses too.[[/note]]

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-->-- ''Series/TopGear'' [[note]][[SubvertedTrope Turns out Clarkson is right; it is good at knocking down houses too.[[/note]]
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->You should not have a favorite weapon. To become over−familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.
-->-- '''Creator/MiyamotoMusashi''', ''Litarature/TheBookOfFiveRings''

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-->-- ''Series/TopGear'' [[hottip:*:[[SubvertedTrope Turns out Clarkson is right; it is good at knocking down houses too.]]

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-->-- ''Series/TopGear'' [[hottip:*:[[SubvertedTrope [[note]][[SubvertedTrope Turns out Clarkson is right; it is good at knocking down houses too.]]
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->'''Jeremy''': Incredibly specialized. The cab is on hydraulic rams. It senses your weight and raises it to the correct height so if there is a blast underneath, there is blast, you're cushioned from that blast.

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->'''Jeremy''': Incredibly specialized. The cab is on hydraulic rams. It senses your weight and raises it to the correct height so if there is a blast underneath, there is blast, you're cushioned from that blast.
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->'''Jeremy Clarkson''': Unlike James', [[TanksButNoTanks mine]] is white. It's also absolutely excellent. The tiller on the front is used for mine-clearance, but it can also be used for pulling down houses... in my mind. *looks away* What?
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->'''Richard Hammond''': It's a bit focused on one thing, isn't it? ''Mine clearance''. That's what it is: a mine clearing machine.
->'''Jeremy''': Yes.
->'''Richard''': But we're not clearing mines, we're knocking a house down. ''You've focused on one thing, and we're not doing that thing''.
->'''James May''': It's a ''very'' specialized piece of equipment, this.
->'''Jeremy''': Incredibly specialized. The cab is on hydraulic rams. It senses your weight and raises it to the correct height so if there is a blast underneath, there is blast, you're cushioned from that blast.
->'''Richard''': Again. Amazing, but it ''won't'' be. Because we're ''not'' clearing a minefield, we're knocking houses down.
->'''Jeremy''': You wait.
-->-- ''Series/TopGear'' [[hottip:*:[[SubvertedTrope Turns out Clarkson is right; it is good at knocking down houses too.]]

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-> This was not done by blaculas, but I'm not willing to rule out caucasian vampires.
-->-- [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Jefferson Twilight]], Blacula hunter.

-> '''Haw Haw!''' What are you going to do, run five miles away and ''shoot'' me?
-->-- [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Spy]] to the Sniper, [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm Jarate Introduction]], ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.

-> An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

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->It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.
-->-- '''Major Motoko Kusanagi''', ''{{Ghost in the Shell}}''

-> This was not done by blaculas, [[{{Film/Blacula}} blaculas]], but I'm not willing to rule out caucasian Caucasian vampires.
-->-- [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Jefferson Twilight]], '''Jefferson Twilight''', Blacula hunter.

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->'''The Spy:''' ''Haw Haw!''
What are you going to do, run five miles away and ''shoot'' me?
->'''The Sniper:''' [[LastSecondWordSwap Ye- No]]... (''How did he know?'')
-->-- [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Spy]] to the Sniper, [[http://www.''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', "[[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm Jarate Introduction]], ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.

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->''"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''

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->''"A ->A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''



->''"Let no way be my way."''
-->-- '''Bruce Lee'''

->''I built a comp-sci major and the game locked me in a room with a robo-bully and his fully automatic arm cannon.''
-->-- '''PennyArcade''', on the boss battles in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''

->''"He who is skilled with a hammer [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer thinks everything is a nail.]]"''

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->''"Let ->Let no way be my way."''
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-->-- '''PennyArcade''', ''PennyArcade'', on the boss battles in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''

->''"He ->He who is skilled with a hammer [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer thinks everything is a nail.]]"'']]
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->''"He who is skilled with a hammer thinks everything is a nail."''

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->''"He who is skilled with a hammer [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer thinks everything is a nail."'']]"''
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-->-- [[TheVentureBrothers Jefferson Twilight]], Blacula hunter.

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-->-- [[TheVentureBrothers [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Jefferson Twilight]], Blacula hunter.
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->''"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''\\
-- '''Creator/RobertAHeinlein'''

->''"Let no way be my way."''\\
-- '''Bruce Lee'''

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->''"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''\\
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->''"Let no way be my way."''\\
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-->--'''Abraham Maslow'''

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-->--'''Abraham -->-- '''Abraham Maslow'''
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->''"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''
-->-- '''Robert A. Heinlein'''
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->''"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''
-->-- '''Robert A. Heinlein'''
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-- '''RobertHeinlein'''

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-- '''RobertHeinlein'''
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-->-- [[TeamFortress2 The Spy]] to the Sniper, [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm Jarate Introduction]], ''TeamFortress2''.

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-->-- [[TeamFortress2 [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Spy]] to the Sniper, [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm Jarate Introduction]], ''TeamFortress2''.
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->''"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."''

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->''"When all you have ->''"He who is skilled with a hammer, hammer thinks everything looks like is a nail."''
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->''"[[TropeNamer When all you have is a hammer]], everything looks like a nail."''

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->''"[[TropeNamer When ->''"When all you have is a hammer]], hammer, everything looks like a nail."''
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->''"[[TropeNamer When all you have is a hammer]], everything looks like a nail."''
-->--'''Abraham Maslow'''
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-->-- '''PennyArcade''', on the boss battles in ''DeusExHumanRevolution''

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-->-- '''PennyArcade''', on the boss battles in ''DeusExHumanRevolution''
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-- '''PennyArcade''', on the boss battles in ''DeusExHumanRevolution''

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->''I built a comp-sci major and the game locked me in a room with a robo-bully and his fully automatic arm cannon.''
-- '''PennyArcade''', on the boss battles in ''DeusExHumanRevolution''
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-->-- [[TeamFortress2 The Spy]], [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm Jarate Introduction]], ''TeamFortress2''.

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-->-- [[TeamFortress2 The Spy]], Spy]] to the Sniper, [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm Jarate Introduction]], ''TeamFortress2''.
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-->-- [[TeamFortress2 The Spy]], [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm Jarate Introduction]].

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-->-- [[TeamFortress2 The Spy]], [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm Jarate Introduction]].
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-->''"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''\\

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-->''"A ->''"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''\\



-->''"Let no way be my way."''\\

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-->''"Let ->''"Let no way be my way."''\\
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-->''"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."''\\
-- '''RobertHeinlein'''

-->''"Let no way be my way."''\\
-- '''Bruce Lee'''

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