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->'''Cuphead and Devil:''' One, two, three!\\
'''Devil:''' Ha!\\
'''Cuphead:''' Rock beats scissors.\\
'''Devil:''' (gasps)\\
'''Audience:''' (gasps)\\
'''Mugman and Ms. Chalice:''' (gasps, then hug each other)\\
'''Cuphead:''' Wow. Looks like I win.\\
'''Audience:''' (cheers)\\
'''Devil:''' Best two out of three!\\
'''Cuphead:''' Okay.\\
'''Mugman and Ms. Chalice:''' ''[[BigWhat What?!]]''\\
'''Audience:''' (gasps)\\
'''Cuphead:''' One, two, three! Paper covers rock, I win!\\
'''Mugman, Ms. Chalice and audience:''' (sighs in relief)\\
'''Devil:''' Shut up! Best three out of five!\\
'''Cuphead:''' One, two, three! Scissors cuts paper!\\
'''Devil:''' Best five out of seven!\\
'''Cuphead:''' One, two, three! Rock beats scissors!\\
'''Devil:''' Seven out of nine? Best nine of eleven!\\
'''Cuphead:''' (wins again) Ha-ha!\\
'''Devil:''' [[VillainousBreakdown How do you keep winning?!]]\\
'''Cuphead:''' I don't know. I guess I don't overthink it.
-->--''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'', "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS3E11TheDevilAndMsChalice The Devil and Ms. Chalice]]"
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->'''Jesse:''' This is nothing but an ankle-grab. Like, I don't get you, man. A week ago you talked like you were all ready to hang it up.\\
'''Walter:''' We've nearly got forty pounds we need to sell.\\
'''Jesse:''' Yeah, what about after? Huh? After you gonna make up some new... magic number? Like, "I got bills, I got bills. I gotta make more".
-->--''Series/BreakingBad'', "Mandala"
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->'''"Nobody":''' [John]'s in Berlin, at the Ruska Roma. You can wire that finder's fee now.\\
'''The Marquis:''' No.\\
'''"Nobody":''' Excuse me?\\
'''The Marquis:''' Kill John Wick and you'll get your money.\\
'''"Nobody":''' That wasn't part of our deal.\\
'''The Marquis:''' The deal was for your service. And it's now a life for a life, Mr. Nobody. Yours or his. When it's done, you will have your prize. And your pension.
-->-- ''Film/JohnWickChapter4''
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->'''Speaker Haffley:''' We still haven't cut enough spending.\\
'''President Bartlet:''' I agree. I want you to cut agriculture subsidies, and you want me to cut Medicaid, again. You know I'll veto any Medicaid cuts, and I know you won't give me any agriculture cuts. So, here we are.\\
'''Haffley:''' Then we're back to a continuing resolution, sir, which I can probably pass with a two percent...\\
'''Bartlet:''' No. We were 100 billion apart, and I met you halfway, at 50 billion. Then we were 50 billion apart, and I suspect if I'd gone down to 25, we'd be 12 billion apart. [...] Well, I'm not going to negotiate with anyone who holds a gun to my head. We had a deal! I don't care if my approval ratings drop into single digits. I am the President of the United States and I will leave this government shut down until we reach an equitable agreement!
-->--''Series/TheWestWing'', "Shutdown"
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->'''Darth Vader:''' Calrissian, take the princess and the wookie to my ship.\\
'''Lando Calrissian:''' You said they'd be left in the city under my supervission!\\
'''Darth Vader:''' I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.\\
-->-- ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''
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->'''Darth Vader:''' Calrissian, take the princess and the wookie to my ship.\\
'''Lando Calrissian:''' You said they'd be left in the city under my supervission!\\
'''Darth Vader:''' I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.\\
-->-- ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''
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'''Mileena:''' Kronika altered our deal!\\
'''Cetrion:''' Pray she does not alter it further.

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'''Mileena:''' Kronika [[BigBad Kronika]] altered our deal!\\
'''Cetrion:''' [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Pray she does not alter it further.]]
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->''"Meet me in the middle", says the dishonest man.''\\
''You take a step forard, he takes a step back.''\\
''"Meet me in the middle", says the dishonest man.''

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->''"Meet ->"Meet me in the middle", says the dishonest man.''\\
''You
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You
take a step forard, forward, he takes a step back.''\\
''"Meet
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"Meet
me in the middle", says the dishonest man.''



->”Authoritarianism is always an ideology of inequality: I make the rules, you follow them, I change them at will and punish those who disobey, or, if I feel like it, those who do [obey] because I can.”

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->”Authoritarianism ->''”Authoritarianism is always an ideology of inequality: I make the rules, you follow them, I change them at will and punish those who disobey, or, if I feel like it, those who do [obey] because I can.”''

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