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1 " We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped. "
― George Lucas , Star Wars: A New Hope (Star Wars: Novelizations, #4)
2 " May the Force be with you. "
3 " They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes "
4 " Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments.Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous. "
5 " TK-421, why aren't you at your post? "
6 " Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important. "
7 " there are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed. "
8 " You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then you can use the force. You have to enter to a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cognition, relax, stop thinking... let yourself drift... free... free... "
9 " Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match. "
10 " You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then can you use the force. You have to enter a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cogitation, relax, stop thinking … let yourself drift … free … free … "
11 " I can’t see,” Luke muttered, turning around and forcing Kenobi to step back out of range of the dangerously wavering saber. “How can I fight?” “With the force,” old Ben explained. “You didn’t really ‘see’ the seeker when it went for your legs the last time, and yet you parried its beam. Try to let that sensation flow within you again.” “I can’t do it,” Luke moaned. “I’ll get hit again.” “Not if you let yourself trust you,” Kenobi insisted, none too convincingly for Luke. “This is the only way to be certain you’re relying wholly on the force. "
12 " Relax!” old Ben urged him. “Be free. You’re trying to use your eyes and ears. Stop predicting and use the rest of your mind. "
13 " The Force is with us always! "
14 " He stood on the sand watching the double sunset as first one and then the other of Tatooine's twin suns sank slowly behind the distant range of dunes. In the fading light the sands turned gold, russet, and flaming red-orange before advancing night put the bright colors to sleep for another day. "