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Goku: [to Oozaru Gohan] Gohan? This is Daddy. I know you're angry right now, but you have to focus your anger. Re...remember Icarus?
Gohan: [Gohan has a short flashback of his cute, baby pet dragon Icarus, which ends with the dragon's death]
Goku: He did it. [Goku points at Vegeta]
Gohan: [ROAR]
Vegeta: OH, THAT'S BULLSHIT! I haven't killed a damn thing since I got to this godforsaken planet! Not for lack of trying, mind you...

Stan: You know, somebody once said, "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man."
Jesus: Who said that?
Stan: You did, Jesus.
Jesus: ...You're right, Stan. Thank you, boys! (resumes his fight against Satan)
Kyle: Wow, did he say that in the Bible?
Stan: Nah, I saw it on Star Trek.note 

Ben: Why would anyone want to attack us?
Sam: Because it's a ploy. If they can make this terrorist group look like they massacred a clinic and killed yours truly, Veracruz can do anything he wants down here. And get a blank check to do it.
Ben: But we're not political! I've never even heard of the Es... what was it?
Sam: Espada Ardiente.
Amanda: Yeah, it happens all the time. I saw it when I worked back in Africa. Some military group needs aid, so they do something really terrible and blame it on their enemies.
Burn Notice prequel The Fall of Sam Axe

Colby Kraus: All right, Homer. What is it you're attempting to do? Win over a difficult client?
Homer: I'm trying to land a plane with no experience.
Colby Kraus: [Beat] Ok Homer, I don't know anything about planes, but I know about you. You have what made America great; no understanding of the limits of your power and a complete lack of concern for what anyone thinks of you. So you'll land that plane, and do you know why? Because I heard some guy say you couldn't.
Homer: [furious] What?! I'll show him! I'll show that guy! [Lands plane successfully]

Wedge: We'll need a wheeled transport, one of the flatcam units our pursuers are carrying, and four sets of women's clothing.
Hobbie: Boss, please tell me you're not putting us in women's clothing.
Wedge: Very well. I'm not putting us in women's clothing.
(Scene Break)
Hobbie: You lied to me.
Wedge: I did. With my brilliant achievements in the diplomatic profession has come the realization that lies can be powerful motivators.

Maria Hill: Sir.
Nick Fury: Agent Hill?
Maria Hill: Those cards. They were in Coulson’s locker, not in his jacket.
Nick Fury: They needed the push.

Jake: You were outside, I was inside. You were supposed to keep in touch with the band. I kept asking you if we were gonna play again.
Elwood: Well, what was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you.
Jake: You lied to me.
Elwood: Wasn't lies, it was just... bullshit.

Ronnie: I can't make that pitch, Coach.
Boone: Yes, you can. When I was fifteen years old, I lost my mother and my father in the same month, Ronnie, same month. Twelve brothers and sisters, I was the youngest one, but they were all looking up to me. Now I wasn't ready either, but they needed me. Your team needs you tonight.
(Later)
Doc: You had twelve brothers and sisters?
Boone: Eight.
Doc: Yeah. Twelve sounds better.

"Welcome to Project: Zero Dawn. I'm General Herres, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States of America. I'm sure you've heard the rumors. That Zero Dawn is a top-secret superweapons program. The technological miracle that will save us from the Faro Plague – if Operation: Enduring Victory can hold off the robots long enough. The reason I'm sure you've heard the rumors is that I'm the one who spread them. And they are all lies. Zero Dawn is not a superweapons program, and it will not save us. Nothing will save us, and here's why."

[explains the severity of the Faro Plague and why there's no stopping it]

"This is the horrible truth behind the lies of Operation: Enduring Victory – my lies – lies designed to inspire millions of innocents to sacrifice themselves in battle. Why? One reason: to buy time for you and the work you will do here. Zero Day – the day that life on Earth ceases to exist – is coming fast. It cannot be stopped. The hope of Zero Dawn is that something new might come after. But I will leave it to Elisabet Sobeck to shine that thin ray of light into the darkness. Herres out."
General Aaron Herres, Horizon Zero Dawn

"Don't matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain't no going back. I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight."
Slim Charles, The Wire

Pirra: You let me go on believing I'd be free.
Userref: You needed something to hope for. Everyone does. It's what keeps them going.
Pirra: Even if it's a lie?
Userref: Yes. Even then.
Gods and Warriors, The Outsiders

Aaron: It's cool to see you and dad being friends again.
Katie: Oh, I was just telling him what he wants to hear. I didn't mean a word of that. I just wanna get my future back and get away forever.

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