How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me?I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me.Your wife can’t be a banshee—Or can she?

~ Ogden Nash

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That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.

~ Henry V. O'neil

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Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.

~ Henry V. O'neil

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Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!

~ Henry V. O'neil

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Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m gonna make sure you’re alive before I go.

~ Henry V. O'neil

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Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.

~ Henry V. O'neil

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