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Brad Neary: I don't understand these fractions.
Roy Neary: What's one third of sixty?
Brad Neary: That's a fraction, I don't understand them.
Roy Neary: Alright, let's say that this boxcar is sixty feet long, OK?, and one third of it is across this switch here, alright... And now another train is coming... Now, how far do you have to move this boxcar so that the other train doesn't smash it? Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake... Brad any answer...
Claude Lacombe: Major Walsh, it is an event sociologique.
[Roy is shoveling soil into his kitchen window.]
Roy Neary: Ronnie, if I don't do this, *that's* when I'm going to need a doctor.
Claude Lacombe: Mr. Neary, what do you want?
Roy Neary: I just want to know that it's really happening.
Roy Neary: You have no right to make people crazy. You think I investigated every Walter Cronkite story there is, uh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much? What the hell is going on around here? Who the hell are you people?
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