"No offense to your father, Jim, but let's face it—the man's dead. Dead, dead, dead. Moldering in the ground, being eaten by worms, and...what's that kind of fly that lays its eggs in rotting meat? You know the ones, little white maggots wriggling everywhere. Those."

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“You can't make cheese from rats. … It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.”

“Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.”

“I said I'd make ye a man, Jim - but damme if ye didn't go and do it behind my back when I were watching elsewhere.”

“Just because you’re living in blissful oblivion doesn’t mean you’re not responsible.”

“People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.”

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