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James Bond: (reaching for a bottle of champagne) It's lost its chill!
Jill Masterson: (playfully) Why, you...
Bond: There's another in the fridge.
Jill: Who needs it?
Bond: My dear, some things just aren't done. Such as drinking Dom Pérignon '53 above a temperature of 35° Fahrenheit. That's as bad as listening to The Beatles without earmuffs.

"To become great, one must be able to do more than fight."
Griffith, Berserk

"I've got creative talents and battle malice
Hard as steel on the field, genteel in the palace!"
Frederick the Great, Epic Rap Battles of History

Capt. Jean-Luc Picard: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
Wesley Crusher: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams.
Picard: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship.
Wesley: But Starfleet Academy...
Picard: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.
Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Samaritan Snare"

Kyril unfortunately could not take any of those books out from the library, the librarian said so with a sneer. He smiled humorlessly. He was just a mercenary, the same as Vault was. What was a bloodthirsty madman like him going to do with books out here?

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