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  1. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    GULL {musing} : The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys {he has surprised himself} ... if six monkeys were .. .ROS: Game?GULL: Were they?ROS: Are you?GULL {understanding}: Game. {Flips a coin.} The law of averages, if I have got this right, means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their
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  2. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.
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  3. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    ...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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  4. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
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  5. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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  6. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Pirates could happen to anyone.
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  7. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it.
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  8. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
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