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• You can have my Unix system when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. -- Cal Keega
• They'll take away my sword when they pry my cold dead fingers off the hil
• Supposing that I should have the courage to let a red sword of virtue plunge into my heart.
  ..What can you offer me? A garden castle? A flowery kingdom?...
• My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers.
  He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was....
• I can give you my word, but I know what it's worth and you don't.
  -- Nero Wolfe, "Over My Dead Body...
• I can give you my word, but I know what it's worth and you don't.
  -- Nero Wolfe, "Over My Dead Body...
• Can my sword talk to your axe? -- Famous Last Word
• Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.
  I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade....