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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

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Aaron Allston
Age: 53 †
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
Died: 2014
Died: February 27
Film Director
Game Designer
Novelist
Role-Playing Game Designer
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Corsicana
Texas
Aaron Dale Allston
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At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface. Crash. Quite slowly. Face & Luke
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I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.
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Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.
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When all else fails, complicate matters
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I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas. You haven't heard all our ideas. Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles
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Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to. No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission. We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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Life is like an analogy.
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And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind. Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic. Excuse me! [hopping up to stand in his seat] Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty! I withdraw my objection.
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Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table. Han (to Leia)
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.
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Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want. We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to. Thanks. Wedge & Tycho
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No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.
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