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James Murray: This is about recording the evolution of meaning.
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James Murray: Who's she?
Dr. William Chester Minor: The impossible.
James Murray: The more impossible, the greater the love.
Dr. William Chester Minor: Do you truly believe that? My heart is so sick.
James Murray: Well... what I know of love is that the sickness often becomes the cure.
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Ada Murray: Sometimes when we push away, that is when we most need to be resisted.
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Eliza Merrett: "If Love... Then What ?"
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James Murray: For every word, in action, becomes beautiful in the light of its own meaning.
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Church: If Love... Then What ?
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Lord Chief Justice: Please identify the accused.
Defence Attorney Clarke: Dr. William Chester Minor, Captain Surgeon in the US Army, retired. Dr. Minor has come to our shores seeking sanctuary. In his home country on the United States, he was pursued relentlessly by a man pledged to torture and kill him.
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Dr. William Chester Minor: It's freedom, Mrs. Merrett. I can fly out of this place on the backs of books. I've gone to the end of the world on the wings of words... . When I read, no one is after me. When I read, I am the one who is chasing--chasing after God.
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Dr. William Chester Minor: Have you gotten to the "I's" by now? I had some to add to your words. But I can't seem to... I can't seem to find my pens.
The Professor and the Madman Quotes
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