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3* ''Quotes/TheMatrixReloaded''
4* ''Quotes/TheMatrixRevolutions''
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6!!''The Matrix''
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8->This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
9-->-- '''Morpheus'''
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11-> As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living...''two'' lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a Social Security number, you pay your taxes, and... you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo, and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual...the man who calls himself Morpheus. Now, whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I'm wasting my time with you, but I believe you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean. Give you a fresh start. And all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
12-->-- '''Agent Smith'''
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14-> That sounds like a good deal. But I've got a better one. How about I give you the finger, and you give me my phone call?
15-->-- '''Neo''', in response
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17->Tell me, Mister Anderson: what good is a phone call...if you are unable to speak?
18-->-- '''Smith'''
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20->If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
21-->-- '''Morpheus'''
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23-> What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this. [holds up a [[ProductPlacement Duracell battery]]]
24-->-- '''Morpheus'''
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26->'''Morpheus''': I've seen an Agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.\
27'''Neo''': You trying to tell me I can dodge bullets?\
28'''Morpheus''': I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
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30-> The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you [[DistractedByTheSexy looking at the woman in the red dress]]?
31-->-- '''Morpheus'''
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33->'''Morpheus''': How did I beat you?\
34'''Neo''': You're too fast.\
35'''Morpheus''': Do you believe that my being stronger or faster [[ScrewTheRulesTheyreNotReal has anything to do with my muscles in this place]]?\
36''*beat, Morpheus leans down*''\
37'''Morpheus''': [[ArmorPiercingQuestion You think that's air you're breathing now?]]
38
39->'''Spoon boy''': Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.\
40'''Neo''': What truth?\
41'''Spoon boy''': There is no spoon.\
42'''Neo''': There is no spoon?\
43'''Spoon boy''': Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
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45->'''Trinity''': Neo... nobody has ever done this before.\
46'''Neo''': That's why it's going to work.
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48-> I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.
49-->-- '''Agent Smith'''
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51-> Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm going to be honest with you. I... ''hate'' this place. This... ''zoo.'' This prison. This... reality, whatever you wanna call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it. It's repulsive, isn't it?!
52-->-- '''Agent Smith'''
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54-> [[VerbThis Dodge this]].
55-->-- '''Trinity'''
56
57-> [[PreMortemOneLiner I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.]]
58-->-- '''Agent Smith'''
59
60-> You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.
61-->-- '''Agent Smith'''
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63-> My name...is ''Neo''!
64-->-- '''Neo'''
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66-> I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world ... without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
67-->-- '''Neo'''
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