O Lucky Man!

[about game of chess] If you don't take that castle soon, the National Trust will!

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Michael, I don't know if anyone's ever told you this, but you happen to belong to a very rare group of encephaloids.

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I've sensed the spark of idealism in you and I can move mountains, you know that, hmm. Oh, for a man like you, Travis. Michael, for a boy like you, you're still young! Everything is possible. The world is your oyster. I can see you stripped, building motorways. You have eyes like Steve McQueen. Did anyone ever tell you that?

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Professor Millar: What do you think is the most successful animal that's ever lived on this earth? Michael Arnold Travis: The ant? Professor Millar: The dinosaur. Uh, do you realize that the dinosaurs dominated this globe for 140 million years before they became extinct? Modern Man has been on this planet for only a fraction of just over 40,000 years and yet already he faces extinction. In fact, the species will be lucky to survive beyond the year 2010. Mankind has only one hope: science. Technology is a survival kit of the human race. Even the politicians realize this. What they don't, or won't realize is, that the technical solutions are already entirely within our power. The entire population of India could be rehoused on the moon within ten years. It's only a matter of learning to live in a new way.

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Michael Arnold Travis: Would you like some soup, sir? Homeless person: No thanks, son. I don't take solids.

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Michael Arnold Travis: Yes, but what's gonna happen to me? Will I come out the same as I went in? Professor Millar: Not the same: better.

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