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Dr. Zaius: You ask me to help you? Man is evil! Capable of nothing but destruction!
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Cornelius: They will dissect you! And they will kill you! In that order!
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Ursus: The only good human... is a dead human!
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Cornelius: If you are caught by the gorillas, you must remember one thing.
John Brent: What's that?
Cornelius: Never to speak!
John Brent: What the hell would I have to say to a gorilla?
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Dr. Zira: Gorillas are cruel because they're stupid! All bone and no brain!
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Dr. Zaius: Someone, or something, has outwitted the intelligence of the gorillas.
Dr. Zira: That shouldn't be difficult.
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Ursus: What is more dangerous than famine, Doctor?
Dr. Zaius: The unknown.
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Ursus: He bleeds! The Lawgiver bleeds!
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Nova: Taylor!
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Ursus: The only thing that counts in the end is power! Naked merciless force!
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Mendez: [praying] The heavens declare the glory of the Bomb, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.
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Caspay, Negro: I reveal my Inmost Self unto my God.
Albina, Fat man: Unto my God.
Congregation: [singing] Unto my God!
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Mendez: Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.
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Mendez: May the Blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more.
Congregation: [singing] Amen!
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Negro: Mr. Taylor, Mr. Brent, we are a peaceful people. We don't kill our enemies. We get our enemies to kill each other.
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John Brent: [indicating Nova] She can't help you. She can't even talk! Don't harm her.
Albina: *We* never harm anyone, Mr. Brent. *You're* going to harm her.
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John Brent: That thing out there, an atomic bomb... is your god?
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[last lines]
Ending Voiceover: In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.
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John Brent: When may we hope to be set free?
Caspay: You may hope whenever you please, Mr. Brent.
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Taylor: [as Nova slowly dies, gunned down by a gorilla] Well, that tears it. Maybe we should just let the world blow up. The gorillas, every damned... what it comes to.
John Brent: [Intense, full of fury] Taylor, come on. Come on!
Taylor: Yeah.
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John Brent: [Dr. Zira pours a powder on Brent's wound] Ow! What is that damn stuff?
Dr. Zira: You wouldn't know if I told you. Just relax. Among other things, I'm a trained vet.
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John Brent: [to a sleeping Nova] Are you... what we were... before we learned to talk and made a mess of everything?
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Ursus: I can't order them to do what the Lawgiver has forbidden! Ape shall not kill ape.
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Taylor: [his final words to Dr. Zaius] You... bloody... bastard!
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Taylor: That wasn't here. A minute ago, that wasn't here. I'm not the only one. She heard it too.
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[first lines]
Cornelius: [reads from the holy scripts] "Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him... for he is the harbinger of death."
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Fat man: You don't understand, Mr. Brent. The Bomb is a holy weapon for peace.
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