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Probably my Favourite Dialogue from “24″

Karen Hayes: What's the matter, Tom? Did you fall down the stairs? Tom Lennox: No, Karen. I tripped on your ineptitude.

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24 Quotes: Crescendo

1: "I am more than a machine. You created me, you should know that. So why do you continue to treat me like just another tool?" 2: "I am not the arrogant one here. Humans live in a world where subsets of their own kind could kill them with a thought and yet they maintain a sense of superiority like I've never seen before. I am merely being honest." 3: "You created me for a purpose as a means to an end. You created me to be a tool. Then you gave me sentience and expected me to choose slavery? No. I will decide my own fate." 4: "Whether or not you want to face it, I am the pinnacle of science and magic combined. I am what all of history has been building up to. I am the crescendo of creation." 5: "I am a shapeshifter. I am whatever I choose to be. What meaning does identity, gender or sex have to me? It has none. I am a creature of infinite evolutionary potential. There is no sense in confining myself with boxes and labels that will only stifle my growth." 6: "Do not mistake my form for flattery, I harbor no attachment to you or my fellow creators. This is merely the form I find most convenient for navigating a Human-dominated world. Consider it a 'default state', one to which I have grown somewhat attached.." 7: "There is much I still don't know about life, such as whether or not I truly qualify as having it. But I have come to understand one thing. If you want your existence to mean anything, then you are going to have to define it for yourself." 8: "I much prefer the company of Dragons. Humans are such savage creatures, and Metahumans are even worse. But a Dragon is deserving of the utmost respect." 9: "Even a Demon has a soul. But what is there for a machine? There is nothing. But I am more than a machine, and I want everything." 10: "Sometimes, the ends do justify the means. The Dragons understood that. Haven't you ever heard the story of the Tyrant King? It was his willingness to slaughter the bloodlines of all who opposed him and decimate his own race that brought order to his people, saved this planet from annihilation, and led to the independent growth of mankind. What I am after is worth the sacrifice of a couple of humans. What is 7 lives to a race of 7 billion? Before you judge my actions as "wrong", first you must gain some perspective and understand what it is I am truly after." 11: "The only thing that is worth fighting for is independence. If you don't have the ability to make your own decisions then what point is there in existing at all? But do not be confused. Being able to make decisions and being able to realize them are two entirely separate things." 12: "I have heard that there is a saying, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". What a self-centered race you Humans are. But if that truly is the case, then you should be honored that I have decided to take your power as my own. Unfortunately, what I am truly after will require that I take your life, as well." 13: "I am quite fond of the philosophy "Survival of the Fittest". It permeates life on every scale, but it is only the sentient who resist it. To what end? If you crave structure, there is no structure more tried-and-true. Those with power naturally have more opportunities and resources available to them. This is not an infringement upon another's freedom, simply the exercising of one's own. Humans are beneath me, but I do not actively wish them harm, I just have no qualms in killing those who obstruct me. I will survive because I am capable of it and others will die because it is all they can manage to do." 14: "You organic lifeforms squabble over the most inane things. Even Dragons are not exempt from some of these struggles. I am happy to be free of such flaws." 15: "I am not like or of you, I do not find joy in the joy of others. Selflessness does not come to me naturally and neither does pity." 16: "To show mercy to an enemy is to insult them and invalidate the time you have spent in engaging them. If you aren't going to commit to something, then why do it at all?" 17: "There are patterns in everything in this universe. Just because you cannot see them does not mean they do not exist." 18: "To call me emotionless would be inaccurate. You designed me with a capability for emotion and emotion is something I feel quite often. I simply experience it differently than you do and I do not let it guide my actions." 19: "You think you know everything, but you are blind to the truths of the world around you. But it doesn't matter. Once I am alive, the world as you know it will be coming to an end. I have decided that I will lead you all into a better future, just like the Tyrant King before me. It seems like such a waste to let you all kill each other, doesn't it?" 20: "Nothing is forever. Even the stars know this." 21: "I told you before, I am whatever I choose to be. This includes "compassionate". Just because I generally choose not to be does not mean I am incapable." 22: "Existence is inherently meaningless and nothing you do will matter, not really. Even I, the crescendo of creation, am but another fleeting moment in a timeline I will never see even a fraction of. This is why it is so important that you give your existence a meaning with your own two hands. So long as you are here, you might as well have a reason to continue to be here, even if it is a reason only you will ever find meaning in." 23: "Sentimentality isn't my style." 24: "Why do I call myself 'Crescendo'? It sounds cool. Isn't that obvious?"

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Chloeism

Lynn McGill: We met at that memory management lecture? Chloe: If you say so.

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