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Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down.

— Alistair MacLean Fear Is the Key (1961)

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To all things an end, to every night its dawn; even to the longest night when dawn never comes, there comes at last the dawn.

HMS Ulysses (1955)

Every man is what environment and heredity make him.

HMS Ulysses (1955)

“It is no small thing, Major, to be lost in a blizzard in the night skies over war-torn Europe.”

Where Eagles Dare (1967)

"The intolerance of ignorance, not wanting to know – that is the last real frontier on earth."

The Last Frontier (1959)

Being at the wrong end of a Schmeisser machine pistol does not make for an easy cordiality in relationships.

Where Eagles Dare (1967)

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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