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[Prying open Leo's mouth and looking down his throat, as though looking for a soul]
General Thade: Is there a soul in there?
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Attar: Get your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!
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Limbo: Can't we all just get along?
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Thade's Father: Damn them!
General Thade: I will stop him, father.
Thade's Father: Damn them... damn them all to hell!
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Tival: Apes are afraid of water. They can't swim.
Ari: We drown!
Daena: That is why every day we pray for rain.
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Captain Leo Davidson: Never send a monkey to do a man's job.
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Limbo: [emerging from his hiding place] Oh! It's over already? I was *just* about to make my move...
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Captain Leo Davidson: How did the apes get this way?
Daena: What other way would they be?
Captain Leo Davidson: They'd be begging me for a treat right now.
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General Thade: Get me the spaceman!
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Daena: What tribe are you from?
Captain Leo Davidson: United States Air Force, and I'm going back.
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Captain Leo Davidson: Shut up! That goes for all species.
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Ari: You know one day they'll tell a story about a human who came from the stars and changed our world. Some will say it was just a fairy tale, that it was never real. But I'll know.
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Tival: They all want to see this human who defies the apes.
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Captain Leo Davidson: Our apes couldn't talk.
Ari: Maybe they chose not to... given the way you treated them.
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General Thade: Extremism in defense of apes is no vice.
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[When telling the human tribes to run away while they can]
Captain Leo Davidson: Look, you gotta make your people understand, it's over there's no help coming.
Daena: You came.
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[When confronting each other on the battle field]
Krull: My fight is with Thade, not you.
Attar: Then your fight is with me.
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Captain Leo Davidson: I think it's fair to call this hostile territory.
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Ari: It's disgusting the way we treat humans.
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Captain Leo Davidson: Time to explain evolution to the monkeys.
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Limbo: The young ones make great pets. Just make sure you get rid of them before they mature. Believe me, the last thing you want is a human teenager running around your house.
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Captain Leo Davidson: I'm going to get my chimp.
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Lt. Col.Grace Alexander: What? Was the Homo sapien mean to you again? We all know its just rocket envy, don't we?
Captain Leo Davidson: Ever consider an actual boyfriend?
Lt. Col.Grace Alexander: You mean do I enjoy being miserable? No thanks, I'll stick with my chimps.
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Ari: Stop it! Who told you, you could throw stones at humans?
Gorilla kid: My father
Ari: Did he? He's wrong, very wrong. You can tell him for me I said so.
Gorilla kid: Human lover!
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Limbo: Apes in cages... right!
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[while holding a gun on Limbo]
Captain Leo Davidson: Play dead.
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[to Leo in regarding Earth]
Ari: I'd like to see your world.
Captain Leo Davidson: I know. But they'd probably pry you and poke you and throw you in a cage too.
Ari: [smiles] You'd protect me.
[Leo smiles]
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[Leo notices the human mark on Ari's hand]
Ari: I can't go home either now. So, maybe we're not so different.
Captain Leo Davidson: No, we're very different.
[Ari looks at him sadly]
Captain Leo Davidson: You care about everybody, but yourself.
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Limbo: [Referring to the captured humans] All right, get 'em out and get 'em clean! Chop chop!
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Sandar: Senator Nado, good evening!
Senator Nado: [Mutters]
Sandar: My dear, you look lovely!
Nova: Thank you, but I'm having a bad hair day.
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General Thade: Everything in the human culture takes place below the waist!
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Krull: Monkeys are further down the evolutionary ladder,
[groaning]
Krull: just above humans!
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Zaius, Thade's Father: [about humans] I warn you their ingenuity goes hand in hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious, as violent. You must find this human quickly! Don't let him get to Calima!
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Captain Leo Davidson: We're in control now! We're the 800 pound gorilla!
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Limbo: [referring to cuffs] No, no, no, I don't need those anymore.
Gunnar: Says who?
Limbo: Says them! They tried to KILL me! Like I was nothing but a - miserable...
Gunnar: Human?
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Limbo: [after being cuffed with cuffs used for humans] Ow! These things hurt!
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Limbo: How many times do I have to tell you? Wear you gloves when you handle humans!
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Ari: [blocking Limbo] You kill him, and you'll only lower yourself to his level.
Limbo: Exactly!
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Ari: Hm, I knew it, you're sensitive. An uncommon quality in a man.
Krull: [groans]
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Captain Leo Davidson: [referring to Calima] Well, that's where my crew is, so that's where we're going.
Limbo: Doesn't he ever stop?
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Gunnar: You're letting him go?
Captain Leo Davidson: No, he rides with us.
Limbo: Wha? Wha?
[whining]
Limbo: This is suicide!
Limbo: [after others move away] Only a human would think riding through an army encampment could work.
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Limbo: Y'know, I'd like to thank you, for opening my eyes to a brave new world of trade with the humans.
Captain Leo Davidson: Yeah, no problem.
Limbo: Farewell, Spaceman!
Limbo: [immediately turns around to a group of children] Now, who wants to buy some aspirin?
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Limbo: [looking at captured humans] Are you trying to put me out of business? These are the skankiest, scabbiest, scuzziest humans I've ever seen.
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Senator Nado: [to Ari about humans] Next you'll be telling us that these beasts have a soul.
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Captain Leo Davidson: The smarter we get, the more dangerous we become.
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[first lines]
Captain Leo Davidson: [to Pericles, who is panicking during a simulated space mission] You lost.
Captain Leo Davidson: [stops the simulation] Again.
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Ari: It doesn't matter: apes, humans, your planet, my planet, the universe seems only to reward cruelty with power.
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Senator Nado: Trite but true: "Youth is wasted on the young."
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Sandar: She spends a fortune grooming herself.
Nova: And I'm worth every penny.
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