Tips To Learn A New Language

Tips to learn a new language

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.

Demonstrative: this, that.

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.

VERBS (about 100 words)

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.

Demonstrative: this, that.

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.

Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.

Sherlock

"I suppose he likes seeing old faces back together, works for his Asperger's. "

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"Once you rule out the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improper, must be true."

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"Just kill yourself, it's a lot less effort."

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"...you work with angels."

"I may be working with angels, but don't think for a moment that I'm one of them."

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"Your mother has a lot to answer for."

"I have a list. Mycroft has a file."

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"Pain, heartbreak, lost, you always feel it, but you don't have to fear it."

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"Myck..."

"Mycroft is the name you gave me, if possible strugle all the way to the end."

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"Is everyone I've ever met a psychopath?"

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"Your lost would break my heart."

"What the hell am I supposed to answer to that!?"

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"We need to solve the case."

"..but it's Christmas!"

"Yes! ...oh, you mean it's actually Christmas."

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"I'm not psychopath. I'm a higfunctionating sociopath."

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"Your friend is mad!"

-"No he is an as***le but it's an easy mistake."

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"Why am I looking at this?"

- "That's John's and Mary's baby."

"Ah I see, yes it looks uhh...fully functioning."

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"Too powerful for them, too boring for me."

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"The game is on!"

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5 years ago

The Pirates of the Caribbean

This dock is of limits to civilians

_ I'm terribly sorry, if I see one I'll let you know.

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You are without a dought the worst pirate I've ever heard of.

- but you have heard of me. -Jack Sparrow

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Gentleman and my lady, you'll always remember this day as a day you almost caught capetain Jack Sparrow. - Jack S.

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You seem somehow familiar, have I treated you before? - Jack S.

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....they leave no survivors

-No survivors? then where do story's come from?

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Parlays!

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I disclaime to aquest to your request...witch means NO.

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How far are you willing to go for this woman?

- I'd die for her.

Oh good, no worries then.

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The only rules that are important are, what a man can do, and what man can't do. Can you sail alongside a pirate or can you not?

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Take what you can. Give nothing back.

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Everything that we can afford to lose, see that it is lost.

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Me a dishonest? Dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest one's you have to watch out for because you can never predict they're gonna do something incredibly stupid.

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Complications arose, insude and overcome.

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The capitain seems to be acting strange-er.

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Is this a dream?

- no

I thought so, if it were there would be rum.

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There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one's mistakes.

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I love these moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.

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The problem is not the problem; The problem is your attitude towards the problem.

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Just close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream, that's how I get by.

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Mate, if you choose to lock your heart away, you loose it forever.

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My first and only love is the sea.

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For sure, you must be lost to find the place that can't be found, elsewhere everyone would know where it was.

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I'm not looking for a trouble.

- what a horrible way to live.

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So you see, every man has a price his willing to accept, even for what he hoped never to sell.

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Drop the weapons or I kill the man!

- Kill him. His not our man.

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How dare you do exactly what I would do if I were you.

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What are you doing? You can't read.

- It's a Bible you get credit for trying.

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I regret nothing. Ever.

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The world used to be a bigger place.

- The world is still the same, there's just... less in it.

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You actually were telling the true.

- I do it quite a lot actually. Yet people are always surprised.

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That's tempting.

- If we had tiny bit of decency. We'd remove temptation from their path.

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Do excuse me while I kill the man who destroyed my life.

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Gentelman, I wash my hands of this madness.

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You may kill me but you may never insult me.

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No cause is lost if there is a fool left fighting for it.

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Death is a day worth living for.

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If people keep saying that, then it must be true.

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Gentleman lets woman's believe their fantasys.

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You lied me by telling me a truth? That's good. Can I use that sometimes?

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I'm horologist.

It's okay. We all need to earn for life.

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You'd leave me over some horologist?

- Yes.

You Man are all alike.

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Not all treasure is silver and gold mate.

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Sailors tell stories, pyrates make legends.

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MY HERO ACADEMIA

Pt2

I want you to introduce yourself to the world and proudly say "I am here"!

Some heroes always aim for the top while others happily settle, the difference between those two mindsets has a big impact on how far you go in a real world.

These people don't matter. The only thing that matters is that I beat them.

We're all gonna have to fight to stand out, and I'll be aiming for the top too.

There's a difference between those who aim for the top and those who will settle. And that difference matters.

Sometimes heroes have only themselves to rely on. Heart, skill, strength, wisdom, courage, they have to use all of these things to rise to the top.

There is no such thing as luck. You're never gonna become the hero you want if you believe in something like that.

If you know what you want your future to hold for you, you can't worry about what other people think.

You can't help the things your heart lounges for.

Even if you've lost, you always keep looking to whats next. That just means I have to work harder now.

You're not a prisoner of your lineage.

You're admiration for him is a shackle.

He needs to think about the ways he must grow, how he can mature, only than he will reach his potential.

The world is overruned by criminals like you who chase petty dreams.

When a person gains true power they enjoy showing it of to others.

I'm pretty sure there's a hole where his heart should be.

If someone whose only wishes to become a hero reaches their goal, then they don't have real future.

We don't have time to stand around, we have to keep running towards our goals.

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5 years ago

Bungou Stray Dogs

A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.(book: "complete guide to suicide")

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Fear death. Fear slaughter. Those who desire death, have an equal desire to die. Worthless man have no right to draw breath.

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Keep your cool. Losing your cool can kill even the most skilled.

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A reason to live? No, a reason I keep living until now is... So I can be in a double suicide with you.

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All's well that ends well for me.

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What's better than being alive.

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Have pure, cheerful and energetic suicide.

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My hobbies include murder and slow torture.

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This world is incomplete. One may grieve or pray, but people still die from accidental circumstances, and evil goes unpunished to flourish freely in this world.

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Will the dead be comforted by tears?

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Time no longer has meaning for dead.

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I do think it's wonderful when a man strongly believes in an ideal and pours his heart and soul into it.

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Justice is a weapon. It can used to cause harm but it can't be used to protect or save others.

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People need to be told they're worthy of being alive by someone else or they can't go on.

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If you try to save someone you can't save, you'll both end up sinking.

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Be it a crow or a person, be it in a city or village, if you are sincere, you can communicate with others.

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At the time like this,

Be not defeated by the rain.

Be not defeated by the wind.

Nor by iron pipe.

Nor by knife.

Nor by metal bat.

Be of sound body.

Be without desire.

Never be angered.

Always have a quiet smile.

That's whom I wish to be.

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Hit them with whatever is close at hand.

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Man fears death and yet, at the same time, man is drawn to death. Death is endlessly consumed by man in cities and literature. It's a singular moment in one's life that none may reverse.

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Anything I would never want to lose is always lost.

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People live to save themselves.

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If you place yourself somewhere close to raw emotions, where you're exposed to violence and death, instinct and desire, you can brush against man's true nature.

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Every time you obtain something you desire, you loose something you desire. Eventually, world becomes as blue smoke rising from burning leaves.

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I won't capture you next time. I'll rip your heart out.

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I never regretted anything I've done. I've only regretted things I didn't do.

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The head may err, but never the blood.

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Evil expects evil from others.

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The most important part of every job is to not leave anything for others to handle.

Second is, don't let the values of others affect you.

Third, it's easy to predict the behaviour of anyone who's been given an opportunity.

Forth secret to success is: Though there are many forms of strength money and influence, gifts social status... It helps to have all of them, the way I do.

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Money and gifts don't exist to blow up cities. Human strength exists to be shared with those who are in depth of his despair.

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All people, all creatures, live without knowing what they really are.

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The words of your past are unfandametally unrelated to who you are now.

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What should one do, when what they want to be is not what they're best at? Everyone fights, searching for the correct way to live their lives.

What do they seek by fighting? No one can say.

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To die is not opposite of living. It's merely a component of the process of life. Without observing death up close, one can't capture the full picture of what it means to live.

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Be on the side that saves people. If it doesn't matter either way, be a good person.

There is a little difference between justice and evil to you is it? That's a little more beautiful.

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Guts have nothing to do with being able to associate with someone or not.

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No matter how powerful it may be, a pawn is just a pawn.

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5 years ago

"Because People Don't Have Wings, They Look For Other Ways To Fly."

"Because people don't have wings, they look for other ways to fly."

-Keishin Ukai

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5 years ago

Banana fish

I envy you. You know how to fly.

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I never repent. Not once in my life.

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I don't care what these scum think of me.

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I'll never forgive a man who try to make a profit out of people's weaknesses.

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I wish I could hate you. I needed somebody to hate.

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You can accept your loss. You are not as bad as you seem.

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A hurt tiger is the most dangerous beast on earth.

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... Somebody's gotta let the world know that this is the reality we live in.

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Innocence can be more dangerous than guns sometimes.

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An intelligence test?

You want to know if I'm just plain crazy or crazy mad?

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I know that there's at least one guy who cares for me and wants nothing in return. I can't believe how lucky I am. It's the happiest feeling in the world.

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Talking with you makes me feel like I'm dealing with the devil.

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Stop clinging on to your past.

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Those who hate me call me the devil, the reaper, whatever. But you, I will not let you say it. I don't go around carving out eyes of people who are still alive.

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Your kind is always like that. You dominate others by forcefully crushing them. But nobody can dominate me. I'll never bow down to you. I'll resist with my entire soul!

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3 years ago

Peaky Blinders S1

I think Arthur, that's what I do. I think so you don't have to.

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The only difference between me and you Freddy is that sometimes my horses stand a chance of winning.

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Maybe you should put a bullet in his head like they do with mad horses. Maybe you'll have to put a bullet in my head someday too.

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Thomas, you're a bookmaker, a robber, a fighting man, you're not a fool. You have your mother's common sense and your father's devilment. I can see them fighting. Let your mother win.

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If there are bodies to be buried dig holes and dig them deep.

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You sure this isn't heaven?

If it was heaven what would I be doing here.

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It's Thomas Shelby against the whole bloody world right?

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In France we used to say it's just a musical band turning up. It's just trombones and trubes. Just noise, it's just noise. You'll get used to it.

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Rule one: You don't punch above your weight.

You strike when the enemy is weak.

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I'll deal with it, you're too busy taking over the world.

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She won't have life with a man on the run.

If you can't see that, you can't see much.

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He didn't come back. They don't, why should they? You know the words. You're the whore, baby's a bastard. But there's no word for a man who doesn't come back.