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Mine is from an early 2000s film called Vanilla Sky.

“The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”

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[-] Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja 5 points 1 year ago

"If I say 'I know,' I stop thinking."

Nobody has ever gotten the reference, and many don't even get it after I explain it.

(It's from Nicholas Roeg's movie Insignificance, and it's said by an Einstein expy just called The Professor, explaining why it is that he's careful to always say that he thinks that ____ or believes that ____ or that the leading theory is that ____.)

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