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1->''"Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous."''
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3->''"Hark ye yet again – the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event – in the living act, the undoubted deed – there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there’s naught beyond. But ’tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. '''Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other;''' since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations. But not my master, man, is even that fair play. Who's over me? Truth hath no confines." (36.38-39)''
4-->-- '''Starbuck and Captain Ahab''', ''Literature/MobyDick''
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6->''There is no true revenge on a witless brute as there might be on a man.''
7-->-- '''Lord Drinian''', ''Literature/TheSilverChair''
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9->"So, you're chasing around a fly, and in your world I'm the idiot?"
10-->-- '''Jesse''', ''Series/BreakingBad Episode 3x10''
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12->''Stop the pigeon,\
13Stop the pigeon,\
14Stop the pigeon,\
15Stop the pigeon,\
16Stop the pigeon,\
17Stop the pigeon,\
18Stop the pigeon,\
19Howwww?\
20Nab him,\
21Jab him,\
22Tag him,\
23Grab him,\
24Stop that pigeon now!''
25-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines''
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27->"I hate that hedgehog!"
28-->-- '''Dr. Robotnik''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' ([[CatchPhrase in nearly every episode]])
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30->''"Licensed to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. A man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote."''
31-->--'''Carl Spackler''', ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}''

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