They said it, not me

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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States

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One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Another version of this quote (”If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so”) is sometimes misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.

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One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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I am Groot.

Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy)

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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C. S. Lewis

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“Everyone’s the hero of their own story. So when you find out there are other stories where you don’t even rate a mention, it sucks. …If, in this whole war, all you do is save one guy, you are the most important person in that guy’s world.”

- Gwen Poole

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(Superior Spider-Man (2019) #8)

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I'm the most intelligent, capable person on the planet. I'm not playing god. All this time, I've been playing human.

Tony Stark (Superior Iron Man #3)

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We live in a society

The Joker (in the trailer for Zach Snyder’s Justice League)

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Good isn’t a thing you are, it's a thing you do.

Kamala Khan (Marvel Comics)

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The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

The Fourth Doctor (Doctor Who S14E16 “The Face of Evil, Part Four”)

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We do a little trolling, it's called we do a little trolling.

Donald Trump (45th president of the United States)

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Fortune is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

Optimus Prime (Transformers)

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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton, 1675