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->'''Lewis''': I left him behind.\\
'''Beck''': But, we all left togeth--\\
'''Lewis''': You followed orders. I left him behind, In a barren, unreachable, god-forsaken wasteland.
-->--''Literature/TheMartian''
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-->--'''The archduke''', ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm''


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-->--'''The archduke''', archduke of Ehrenfest''', ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm''

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->Don’t become an archduke, kids. You can’t even walk through your own city without needing a thousand layers of excuses and an elaborate plot.
-->--'''The archduke''', ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm''

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->'''Schlock''': Y'know, when it was just ''me'' trying not to screw up, I was a ''lot'' less worried about screwing up.\\
'''Karl Tagon''': Sounds about right. ''[[BlobMonster You]]'' may be massive, but ''brass'' is ''heavy''.
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
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->He did of course invite his officers quite often, and although in the present anxious unsettled state of his affairs he dared not keep the lavish table of earlier, richer days, it was rare that Pullings and a midshipman did not breakfast with him, while the officer of the forenoon watch and a youngster or a Marine would often share his dinner: and the wardroom entertained him once a week. Breakfast and inner, then, were reasonably companionable; but Jack dined at three, and since he was not a man who turned in early that left a great deal of time, far more than the concerns of a ship on blockade could fill, a ship with a thoroughly efficient first lieutenant, plying to a fro off Toulon, all decisions taken by the flag.

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->He did of course invite his officers quite often, and although in the present anxious unsettled state of his affairs he dared not keep the lavish table of earlier, richer days, it was rare that Pullings and a midshipman did not breakfast with him, while the officer of the forenoon watch and a youngster or a Marine would often share his dinner: and the wardroom entertained him once a week. Breakfast and inner, dinner, then, were reasonably companionable; but Jack dined at three, and since he was not a man who turned in early that left a great deal of time, far more than the concerns of a ship on blockade could fill, a ship with a thoroughly efficient first lieutenant, plying to a fro off Toulon, all decisions taken by the flag.
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->'''Princess Henrietta:''' I’m sorry, Louise. Are you alright?\\
'''Louise:''' ...no. But I cannot afford that. The army at the gates is slain but another marches soon and I must be ready. Dead fiances and murder cannot occupy my mind.\\
-->--''Roleplay/{{Communication}}''
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-->--''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar]]''

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->I don’t know why this is making me angry, but I am. This girl, Masae, she’s ''normal'', she doesn’t belong here. Her place is back on Earth with everyone else. Spectra is ''my'' curse, ''my'' prison. I had my normalcy snatched from me, I wasn’t given a choice. Masae thinks she can just board a ship to another planet and just forget how good she’s had it? What I wouldn’t give to be in her shoes, to live her ''normal'' life with ''normal'' people around her on a ''normal'' planet.
-->--'''Kohana''', ''Literature/DivisionByZero''

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->'''Ann:''' I guess it's not easily ruling over 12 million hungry people.
-->-- ''VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997''
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->"You've made so many decisions I didn't expect -- [[spoiler:giving yourself up to Homeworld, coming back through Lion's mane]]. The future that you created was so improbable that I didn't see it coming at all, and now I can't understand where this timeline is going. We're on the outskirts of the possible, following trickles to who knows where. Everyone's looking to me for answers. I can't stand it! It's so hard for me to just exist in the first place, Steven. I want to love being alive. I want to love that there are so many possibilities, but I'm the one with this ability, so I've got to be our guide."
-->--'''Garnet''', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E15PoolHopping Pool Hopping]]"

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->It was ungrateful of him to be discontented, as he admitted in the long rambling letter that he wrote day by day to Sophie - a letter, or rather and installment of the letter, in which he described Stephen's departure. Ungrateful and illogical: he had always known that the Navy was given to extremes and most of the extremes he had experienced himself, beginning with that truly startling lack of space that had faced him early in his career when an angry captain disrated, so that from one day to the next he was no longer a midshipman but a foremast hand, a common sailor required to sling his hammock on the ''Resolution'''s lower deck at the regulation fourteen inches from his neighbours'. Since the ''Resolution'' was a two-watch ship, with half her people on deck when the other half were below, in practice these fourteen inches increased to twenty-eight; but even so Jack's bulky neighbours touched him on either side as they all rolled together on the swell, part of a carpet of humanity, some hundreds strong, unventilated, unwashed apart from hands and faces, given to snoring, grinding their teeth, calling out in their troubled sleep, never more than four hours at a time and rarely so much. Disrating was a rough experience and it had seemed to last forever, but it was of great value, teaching him more about the men and about their attitude towards officers, work, and one another than he could ever have learnt on the quarterdeck: teaching him a very great many things, among them the value of space.

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->It was ungrateful of him to be discontented, as he admitted in the long rambling letter that he wrote day by day to Sophie - a letter, or rather and installment of the letter, in which he described Stephen's departure. Ungrateful and illogical: he had always known that the Navy was given to extremes and most of the extremes he had experienced himself, beginning with that truly startling lack of space that had faced him early in his career when an angry captain disrated, disrated him, so that from one day to the next he was no longer a midshipman but a foremast hand, a common sailor required to sling his hammock on the ''Resolution'''s lower deck at the regulation fourteen inches from his neighbours'. Since the ''Resolution'' was a two-watch ship, with half her people on deck when the other half were below, in practice these fourteen inches increased to twenty-eight; but even so Jack's bulky neighbours touched him on either side as they all rolled together on the swell, part of a carpet of humanity, some hundreds strong, unventilated, unwashed apart from hands and faces, given to snoring, grinding their teeth, calling out in their troubled sleep, never more than four hours at a time and rarely so much. Disrating was a rough experience and it had seemed to last forever, but it was of great value, teaching him more about the men and about their attitude towards officers, work, and one another than he could ever have learnt on the quarterdeck: teaching him a very great many things, among them the value of space.




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->He did of course invite his officers quite often, and although in the present anxious unsettled state of his affairs he dared not keep the lavish table of earlier, richer days, it was rare that Pullings and a midshipman did not breakfast with him, while the officer of the forenoon watch and a youngster or a Marine would often share his dinner: and the wardroom entertained him once a week. Breakfast and inner, then, were reasonably companionable; but Jack dined at three, and since he was not a man who turned in early that left a great deal of time, far more than the concerns of a ship on blockade could fill, a ship with a thoroughly efficient first lieutenant, plying to a fro off Toulon, all decisions taken by the flag.
->The familiar tedium of blockade made these spacious, lonely evenings lonelier and more spacious by far, but in one form or another they were the lot common to all captains who respected tradition and who wished to maintain their authority. Some dealt with the situation by having their wives aboard, in spite of the regulations, particularly on the longer, quieter passages, and some took mistresses; but neither would do in a squadron commanded by Admiral Thornton. Others sailed with friends, and although Jack had known this answer fairly well, generally speaking it seemed that few friendships could stand such close, enforced proximity for many weeks, let alone months or even years. There were also men who took to drinking too much, while some grew strange, crotchety and absolute; and although the great majority became neither confirmed drunkards nor eccentrics, nearly all captains with more than a few years' service were deeply marked by it.
-->--''[[Literature/AubreyMaturin The Ionian Mission]]''
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->As far as creature comforts were concerned, Jack Aubrey was far, far better off than anyone else in the ''Worcester''. He had privacy, he had space: as well as the great cabin in which he took his ease or entertained or played his fiddle and the stern-gallery in which he took the air when he chose to take it alone rather than on the thickly-populated quarterdeck, he had a dining-cabin and a sleeping-cabin, the fore-cabin where he taught his youngsters and attended to his paper-work, and quarter-galleries as lavatory and place of ease. He had his own steward and his own cook, a great deal of room for his private livestock, provisions and wine, and enough in the way of pay and allowances for a provident single man to lay in an adequate supply.
->It was ungrateful of him to be discontented, as he admitted in the long rambling letter that he wrote day by day to Sophie - a letter, or rather and installment of the letter, in which he described Stephen's departure. Ungrateful and illogical: he had always known that the Navy was given to extremes and most of the extremes he had experienced himself, beginning with that truly startling lack of space that had faced him early in his career when an angry captain disrated, so that from one day to the next he was no longer a midshipman but a foremast hand, a common sailor required to sling his hammock on the ''Resolution'''s lower deck at the regulation fourteen inches from his neighbours'. Since the ''Resolution'' was a two-watch ship, with half her people on deck when the other half were below, in practice these fourteen inches increased to twenty-eight; but even so Jack's bulky neighbours touched him on either side as they all rolled together on the swell, part of a carpet of humanity, some hundreds strong, unventilated, unwashed apart from hands and faces, given to snoring, grinding their teeth, calling out in their troubled sleep, never more than four hours at a time and rarely so much. Disrating was a rough experience and it had seemed to last forever, but it was of great value, teaching him more about the men and about their attitude towards officers, work, and one another than he could ever have learnt on the quarterdeck: teaching him a very great many things, among them the value of space.
->Yet here he was with space to be measured by the rod, pole or perch rather than by the square inches of the midshipmen's berth or the square foot of his days as a lieutenant - space and even headroom too, a point of real importance to a man of his height and a rare privilege in ships designed for people of five foot six. He had space and to spare; and he did not appreciate it as he should have done. One of the troubles was that it was uninhabited space, since by another of the Navy's rules of extremes he now ate and lived quite alone, whereas on the lower deck he had dined in the company of five hundred hearty eaters and even in his various gunroom and wardroom messes with a dozen or so - never a meal alone until he reached command; but from that time on never a meal accompanied, except by express invitation.
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-->--'''Col. Robert Iverson''', ''Film/TheCore''

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->''"Being a leader isn't about ability. It's about responsibility. I mean, you're not just responsible for making good decisions. You have to be responsible for the bad ones. You gotta be ready to make the shitty call. [...] It's just that you're used to winning -- and you're not really a leader until you've lost."''
-->--'''Col. Robert Iverson''', ''Film/TheCore''
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->I wake up every morning to fight a war. I send people to kill and die. If I'm lucky, there are more dead kett than Resistance when I go to sleep.
-->--'''Evfra de Tershaav''', ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda''
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->'''Jake:''' See, if I give in to fear, then that gives everyone permission to give in to fear. And we all have good reasons to be afraid. Pretty soon we'd be totally paralyzed. We wouldn't be able to do anything because one of us might have some good reason to be scared.
->'''Cassie:''' We don't morph ants anymore because [[AntWar they scared all of us]], but mostly Marco. We don't ever talk about morphing termites because of [[HiveQueen my problems with them]]. What's the difference?
->'''Jake:''' The difference is you all decided I was the leader. That's the difference. A leader may be just as weak or scared or doubtful as anyone else. But he isn't allowed to show it. People say they want leaders to be just like them, but I don't think so. People want leaders to act the way people wish they could act themselves. [[SadClown Marco]] and [[BloodKnight Rachel]] and [[TheWoobie Tobias]] and [[TokenNonHuman Ax]] don't want me to give them permission to be scared. They want me to help them to be brave.
->'''Cassie:''' ...We didn't do you any favor when we made you leader, did we?
->'''Jake:''' [''forcing a smile''] There's something else a leader doesn't do. Complain about being a leader.
-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #16: The Warning''
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->'''Homer:''' Hey, what's the matter, son?\\
'''Bart:''' Aw, Dad, if just me, Milhouse and Lewis had voted...\\
'''Homer:''' Hey, son, would you have gotten any money for being class president?\\
'''Bart:''' No.\\
'''Homer:''' Would you have to do extra work?\\
'''Bart:''' Yeah.\\
'''Homer:''' And is Martin guy going to get to do anything neat, like throw out the first ball at the World Series? Huh?\\
'''Bart:''' Well, no.\\
'''Homer:''' So, let the baby have his bottle, huh? That's my motto.
-->--''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Lisa's Substitute"
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->''"As I said, to command well in battle is exhilarating. But that feeling turns to ash in your mouth at the news of every injury, every death, suffered by those under your command. It is sometimes referred to as the burden of command or the burden of the mighty, especially to those who know, like and care for those under their command. It is a glorious, yet painful thing."''

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->''"As I said, to command well in battle is exhilarating. But that feeling turns to ash in your mouth at the news of every injury, every death, suffered by those under your command. It is sometimes referred to as the burden of command or the burden of the mighty, especially to [[AFatherToHisMen those who know, like and care for those under their command.command]]. It is a glorious, yet painful thing."''
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->''"As I said, to command well in battle is exhilarating. But that feeling turns to ash in your mouth at the news of every injury, every death, suffered by those under your command. It is sometimes referred to as the burden of command or the burden of the mighty, especially to those who know, like and care for those under their command. It is a glorious, yet painful thing."''
-->--'''Zero''' to '''Oghi''', ''Fanfic/CodeGeassThePreparedRebellion''
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->'''Kaldalis:''' The lives lost tomorrow will be the price of our future.\\
'''Artanis:''' An easy sentiment from one who is not ''sending them to die''!
-->-- '''Reclamation''' short, ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid''

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-->--''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040114 here]]

->[[ThirdPersonPerson Lota]] chose the lesser of two evils. It is in Lota's job description as Monarch.
-->--'''King Lota''', ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''

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->[[ThirdPersonPerson ->''"[[ThirdPersonPerson Lota]] chose the lesser of two evils. It is in Lota's job description as Monarch.
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Lota''', ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''



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->"A beggar I passed in the market once remarked to me that if the gods' brows were wreathed in starfire, their heads must get awfully hot," said Lord Intra to his sparring partner.\\
"What a strange remark," said his partner. "How does one respond to that?"\\
"I told him he was right," said Intra.
-->-- '''The Song of Maybe''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''

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->'''Mandy Hampton:''' Let's start at the bottom.\\
'''Sam Seaborne:''' What do you mean?\\
'''Mandy:''' There's always resignation.\\
'''President Bartlet:''' Hot damn! Now you're talkin'!\\
'''Toby Zeigler:''' I think she meant ''me'', Mr. President.\\
'''Bartlet:''' ''(disappointed)'' Ah.
-->--''Series/TheWestWing'', "Five Votes Down"
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-->--'''T’chaka''', ''Film/BlackPanther2018''

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