#packers!

“Pair-bonding is a neurochemical device designed to facilitate the birth and rearing of juvenile H. sapiens in an environment with the most societal advantages, including the advantages provided by the probable survival of the mother and of a reasonable number of siblings to assist in continued care and family life.”

“I think I just figured out why nobody's ever asked you to be a maid of honor.”

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“So it is that each of us is shackled to desire, just as each of us is sentenced, in the end, to death. And just as it is with death, the body will humble the strongest of minds in the end; it is only the kindness of those we have near us that can grant us any joy or dignity in extremis, either in love or in death.”

“Okay, look, I'm goin' out for a Diet Coke. Do we want any more Trident?”

“We do not. In further quantities, it would induce gastrointestinal upset.”

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“ . . . Such emotions throw into sharp relief what we have come to learn is a key element of most human lives – to desire a thing that cannot be had, to know the foolishness and the root of that desire backwards and forwards, to despise that desire and to hold oneself in contempt for it, yet to remain entirely powerless against it – to be a prisoner of that desire all one's life, until the flesh fails at last, and to be tormented every day till then by Pandora's final horror, the broken-winged Hope.”

“God damn it, Werner Herzog, I am trying to revise a report here DO YOU MIND.”