Querl Dox (Pre-Zero Hour)/Quotes

They don't just jump into the deep end of the pool without looking. They do it backwards and handcuffed.

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That's fine for gardening, kid... but you can't fight crooks with daffodils. Next!

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With the right amount of genius and a touch of perceived insanity, science can conquer anything.

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Seriously, Cosmic Boy -- weren't you happier thinking I'd made a mistake? I have to let you enjoy that feeling once in a while!

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If my calculations are correct — and they're always correct — if the rift's growth goes unchecked, it will destroy the outpost in the next six minutes … then swallow the universe in a matter of days.

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Lower-level intellects tend to react to bad news with violence. Sometimes the violence comes first.

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It is no theory... it is fact. That child will become Infinitus and he will murder billions of alien lives.

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Infinitus was meant to absorb that payload! Without him, the results will be catastrophic-- I--I've just doomed us all-- I've opened a black hole!

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You cannot allow him to get the Ultra-Being into the rift! That is how the end begins!

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It's official, Kara... they've resigned their Legion membership... see.

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You must have changed, Stargrave, when you came to our time. You lost your finely-tuned sense of logic and replaced rational thought with emotion. You were ruled by hatred... And in the end, hatred always proves to be a greedy tyrant. It always demands the ultimate tribute from its subjects... Life itself.

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Let the future roll onwards... a mystery to us... forever.

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You know, Kara, I finally figured out what's been making my thinking so sloppy lately. I should have deduced it more quickly. It's you. You're too damn distracting.

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My shoulder... wrenched it or worse! What good is my mind now??

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Despite all logic, my feelings for you short-lived, small-brained, foolish idiots are sufficient that I have chosen to spend my life among you, instead of on my own world where my intellect would be suitably honored... because you are truly my friends. Stop sniffling.

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I refuse to accept that possibility.

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This chronometer is able to detect and analyze temporal energies. Think of it as a "time compass" of sorts. And the chronometer is telling me that we are in the wrong universe.

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"Fascinating"?! Is that all you can say?

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You can't outthink a fist.

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Has it not struck you that Mordru's babbling indicates that this is most probably a result of efforts of the Servants of Darkness... or their master, who we know nothing about... except for the solitary chilling fact that he seems capable of casually stealing the power from our deadliest enemy for his own use?

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Yes, well, I was wr... I was wr...... I was wrong.

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Reality has begun to shift more and more rapidly. Often without our notice. Each shift weakening the timestream... and if something's not done to arrest the chaos... there'll be no future for anyone.

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I'm no villain, although my ancestor was.

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Boys, get a load of this! I've got the goods on the stool pigeon who's been chirping to Narro!

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I was in the conditioning room for questioning... but I resisted Nardo's brainwashing, and I didn't sing! It proves one of us is a traitor a stool pigeon who told Nardo I was the escape officer!

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It's my fault... I should have guessed... I should have checked... we've all been poisoned... we're all going to DIE!

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Someday we'll perfect the process... and we'll be able to create a replacement for any Legionnaire who dies in action!

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The machine itself was responsible for capturing the thief who planned to steal it!

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You can't, Vehel-- And there's a simple reason behind that, at least-- You spend too much time debating theory, asking questions and pondering the imponderable! You should try doing something instead. You might find some answer that way.

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The Resource Raiders weren't just an unusual group of criminals... they're actually the advance guard of an invasion. The Khunds are about to attack Earth in order to destroy it totally!

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I'm the one with the computer mind, Element Lad. And it's twelfth-level effectors have come to an inescapable conclusion: Earth is doomed.

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I can't dream a death that large! But Omega can... For he is the sum total of all the petty hates in all of us-- In you, in the Princess, in everyone-- And most of all, in me! Yes, I can destroy you... And if I wished, I could save you too! I... I... And only... I!

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There will be time enough for explanations later, guard. Summon the hospital's board of directors. I have... a proposal to make to them. It concerns a matter of life and death.

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But I still built the time bubble to conquer the centuries so I could hold her... kiss her... and not dare interfere with her death. May whatever gods there be have mercy on her soul -- and on mine.

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