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1->'''Hot Pie:''' [[BlatantLies I've seen lots of battles!]] I saw...\
2'''Arya:''' Liar.\
3'''Hot Pie:''' I saw a man killing another at a tavern in Flea's Bottom. Stabbed right in the neck.\
4'''Lommy:''' Two men fighting is no battle.\
5'''Hot Pie:''' They got armour on.\
6'''Arya:''' So?\
7'''Hot Pie:''' [[AssociationFallacy So if they got armour on, it's a battle.]]\
8'''Lommy:''' No, it isn't.\
9'''Hot Pie:''' [[AdHominem What does a dyer's apprentice know about battles, anyway?]]\
10'''Arya:''' Gendry's an armourer's apprentice. Hot Pie, tell Gendry what makes a fight into a battle.\
11'''Hot Pie:''' It's, uh, when they've got armour on.\
12'''Gendry:''' And who told you that?\
13'''Hot Pie:''' [[AppealToAuthority A knight.]]\
14'''Gendry:''' How'd you know he was a knight?\
15'''Hot Pie:''' Wells, [[AssociationFallacy cause he's got a-armour on.]]\
16'''Gendry:''' You don't have to be a knight to have armour. Any idiot can buy armour!\
17'''Hot Pie:''' How'd you know?\
18'''Gendry:''' ''Because I sold armour!''
19-->-- ''Series/GameOfThrones''
20
21->''"Circular logic is self-validating. Therefore it is correct."''
22-->-- '''Anonymous'''
23
24->''"So, you have been sitting here thinking illogically about logical possibilities or logically about illogical possibilities. No wonder you are cranky."''
25-->--'''Delenn''', ''Series/BabylonFive''
26
27->''"Stay awake for twelve hours? I can do that in my sleep!"''
28-->--'''Owen''', ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]]'', "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheBigSleep The Big Sleep]]"
29
30->''"[[InsaneTrollLogic Your logic]] does not resemble our Earth logic."''
31-->--'''Buffy''', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
32
33->"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
34-->--''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass''
35
36->''"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."''
37-->-- '''John Dewey'''
38
39->''"Logic doesn't apply to the real world."''
40-->-- '''Marvin Minsky'''
41
42->''"It's been a fascinating discussion, because ... I feel like we don't connect, like, on -- it's, like ... it's ''weird''. Because ... I like you ... but I don't understand how your ''brain'' works."''
43-->--'''Creator/JonStewart''', ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'', wrapping up the Betsy [=McCaughey=] interview.
44
45->''All of [=Al McColgan=] is dead, but not all that is dead is [=Al McColgan=]''
46-->-- Spoof director's commentary, ''The cassette of the soundtrack of the trailer of the film of Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
47
48->''"The Dean had his seventh epiphany today, which has given me an epiphany of my own--the Dean is a genius. He has to be. If he isn't, I've given almost two weeks of my life to an idiot! That is unacceptable. Therefore, the Dean '''is''' a genius and I '''will''' die protecting his vision."''
49-->-- '''Annie''', ''Series/{{Community}}'' (demonstrating "Appeal to Consequences")
50----
51!! ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''
52-> ''"In the arena of logic, I fight unarmed!"''
53-->-- '''Red Mage'''
54
55-> '''Red Mage:''' Most plans are ''critically'' flawed by their own logic. [[SpannerInTheWorks A failure at any step will ruin everything]]. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has '''[[CrazyEnoughToWork no attachment]]''' to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any step will have no impact on the macro level.
56-> '''Black Mage:''' That's so stupid I can't even see straight any more.
57-> '''Red Mage:''' Now imagine what'll happen when physics tries to figure it out!
58
59-> '''Ranger''': Only people who ''aren't'' us have disappeared, Rogue. Should this pattern continue, we ought to be fine.
60-> '''Rogue''': Why does that make more sense than I think it should?
61-> '''Ranger''': Don't question it!
62-> '''Rogue''': Right. Okay. I have to believe that this will work out in the end.
63-> '''Sarda''': That's a shame.
64
65->'''Red Mage''': We need to use your heart.
66->'''Black Mage''': So do I! It moves my ''blood'' around.
67->'''Red Mage''': ''Not'' if we kill you!
68->'''Black Mage''': That's distressingly logical.
69
70-> '''Thief''': Red Mage, this the worst plan yet in your lifetime filled with nothing ''but'' the worst plans.
71-> '''Red Mage''': It will work, I guarantee it!
72-> '''Black Mage''': [[BeyondTheImpossible It starts at the impossible]] before moving on to the ''even more'' [[PerfectlyCromulentWord impossibler]].
73-> '''Red Mage''': Precisely!
74
75->'''Red Mage''': I'll need more proof than a logical fallacy.
76->'''Jeff:''' In a recent poll, it was found that 100% of Jeffs were very handsome and thought Black Mage survived. Why don't you. Is it because you're ugly?
77->'''Red Mage''': That's [[ExactWords enough]] logical fallacies to convince me. Black Mage is fine.
78
79->'''Red Mage''': Okay, I've got it. We just need to make two portable holes.
80->'''Black Mage''': That'll be difficult due to the total lack of materials, but it's not '''technically''' impossible.
81->'''Red Mage''': And each one has to be the size of the universe.
82->'''Black Mage''': ''[[BigWhat What?]]''
83->'''Red Mage''': Then we drop the universe into one hole, and drop '''that''' hole into the other one, and then reality will be here!
84->'''Black Mage''': So, you want us to build a thing that's the size of everything using nothing.
85->'''Red Mage''': Yes.
86->'''Black Mage''': ''Twice.''
87->'''Red Mage''': Yes.

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