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	Season 4 / Episode 15: - Chapter Eighty-One Henry Preston: What's the big deal? The kid was crying. Some boy named Tristan or Clayton or whatever, he blew her off and dumped her. Steven Harper: And you felt the appropriate response was to put your arms around her? Henry Preston: Yeah. Ronnie Cooke: You do realize how this could look, don't you? Henry Preston: What, that I hugged a girl who was crying? Um...like I'm a nice guy? Ronnie Cooke: You had your arms around a 17-year-old girl, the door was closed, and she was wearing a mini-skirt. Henry Preston: Well, I didn't pick out her clothes this morning.
	Season 4 / Episode 15: - Chapter Eighty-One Ronnie Cooke: I do wonder if you're built to be a teacher. Henry Preston: Why? Ronnie Cooke: In a nutshell, you're not very good with boundaries, and boundaries are essential in a high school. Henry Preston: Why? Ronnie Cooke: Because these kids are at such a vulnerable age. I mean, they look like adults, but they're really just children in many ways. Henry Preston: Hmm. So, by those standards, I'm being suspended for hugging a child that got hurt and was crying?
	Season 3 / Episode 1: - Chapter Forty-Five Scott Guber: [after Colin turns around sharply after talking with some students] Mr. Flynn. Colin Flynn: [politely with a smile] You can call me Colin. Scott Guber: [sternly] I'll opt for Mr. Flynn, but thank you. I would prefer your students also call you Mr. Flynn, Mr. Flynn. Colin Flynn: [nonchalantly] Oh, I-I actually kinda told the kids that I prefer Colin. Ya know all that mister stuff really... Scott Guber: [cutting Colin off; seriously] I know you want to be their friend Mr. Flynn, but that's not how you get their respect. Stay on this course and you will lose control of your class. Colin Flynn: [sarcastically, yet with a smile] That's a pumper, thanks. [walks off]
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Chapter Four Lauren Davis: Sometimes i feel so clueless as to how to do this job. Harry Senate: Just follow the teachers manual. I do. To the letter. Kid doesn't wanna come to class just let him touch a corpse or give a lecture on premature ejaculation. It's all in there. Teachings easy. Just use the manual.
	Unknown Episode: Lauren Davis: I got hit with a breast implant and suddenly I'm a racist?
	Unknown Episode: Harvey Lipschultz: Wear a bra... for the good of the country.
	Unknown Episode: Harry Senate: Lipschultz told them to wear their bras for the good of the country. Turns out they're a bunch of Communist sluts.
	Unknown Episode: Harry Senate: Well, of all the causes to take up, AIDS, cancer... hunger, poverty. I've always felt there was something special about people who commit themselves to guns. Anyone I suppose could contribute to a shelter or help the needy, but it takes a true American to dedicate himself to firearms. And you know what? We need people like you. Our country's getting a bad rep just because we kill each other. Well, that's manly... shooting people. United States, this is were men live. Australia, all their stupid bragging about how tough they are in the outback. They get about... 15 gun homicides a year. What the hell is that? We get ten thousand. The Japanese are even more pathetic. In 1999 for kids between 15 and 19 they didn't have one handgun murder, not one! We had over five thousand! Our teenagers are tough, but it can't happen unless we get the guns out there into their hands and for that we need committed, good people like all of you. Look at these idiots in Washington who think it's wrong for teenagers to have assault rifles. And the stupid Democrats think we should have ten day waiting periods. What happens if you need to kill somebody today? Next thing the government will try to crack down on incest and we won't be able to breed future NRA members. I mean, we are talking about the toothless illiterates that makes this country great. This is America. Get a gun!
	Unknown Episode: Scott Guber: Do you think this is funny? Harry Senate: No, funny would be if I knocked you out, Scott.
	Unknown Episode: Steven Harper: And you, punching a woman? Danny Hanson: Not for nothing, but Title IX says we can hit them now.
	Unknown Episode: Sheryl Holt: Well, I could join the "Gwyneth Club" [shows three girls who look exactly like Gwyneth Paltrow]
	Unknown Episode: Mrs. Parks: SMELL this shoe!
	Unknown Episode: Marla Hendricks: And don't be going around dressed up as some silly, old rabbi either. Everybody's laughin'. Scott Guber: I was unrecognizable. Marla Hendricks: Well, maybe it was somebody dressed as you dressed as a silly, old rabbi, but everybody's laughin' Scott.
	Unknown Episode: Marla Hendricks: These kids, the only way they're going to be all they can be is to join the Marines. There're echoes where their brains should be. Scott Guber: Well, they're smart enough to fool you, Marla.
	Unknown Episode: Scott Guber: Ssh! I'm undercover. Steven Harper: Yeah, I can see that. Scott Guber: This is a serious operation. Steven, please, go away. I'll explain later.
	Unknown Episode: Harvey Lipschultz: It's a trick!
	Unknown Episode: Scott Guber: The little man has been spotted on school grounds. I've got out an all-points bulletin. Steven Harper: How'd he get past security? Scott Guber: Went right under them!
	Unknown Episode: Harvey Lipschultz: You must harness your bosoms in order to squash the discrimination by the male gonads.
	Unknown Episode: Marla Hendricks: A good man, a good principle would be sensitive to that. Steven Harper: I'm not. Marla Hendricks: You're a fat, bald, grump, that's why.
	Unknown Episode: Marilyn Sudor: Women are so dumb, Steven, you know that? Okay, what would you do if somebody hit you? Steven Harper: Well, I'd like to say I'd turn the other cheek, but I'd probably hit 'em back. Marilyn Sudor: Yeah, turning the other cheek is overrated, Steven, take it from me. She's gonna marry that guy, you know what? Screw it. Steven Harper: You're the last person in the world I'd thought would turn bitter. Marilyn Sudor: Oh, I'm way past bitter. He's gonna beat the hell out of her, he's gonna break her spirit again and again, and you know what? Maybe they'll have kids, a baby boy, that would be perfect right? Then they can raise another man in this world you thinks it's okay to hit women, as long as he's really sorry afterwards!
	Unknown Episode: Harvey Lipschultz: I can't keep up with this! First they were negroes. Then they were colored. Then they were black. Now they're African-Americans. Why don't I just avoid all controversy and just call them African-American black colored negroes?
	Unknown Episode: Louisa Fenn: Harvey, I'm half-black. Harvey Lipschultz: Am I your father? Louisa Fenn: No. My father was black. My mother's white. I'm a mulatto. Harvey Lipschultz: You're a cookie?
	Unknown Episode: Steven Harper: When listening to Harry Senate complain about Scott Guber - What exactly are you asking me for, Harry? Harry Senate: The right to tell him to go to hell.
	Unknown Episode: Claire Ellison: Women say stupid things sometimes, you'd be suprised, you'd think we were men...
	Unknown Episode: Danny Hanson: [at Debbie's house after she didn't show up for school that day] What? Are you sick, Debbie? You don't look sick to me... Debbie Nixon: Well, you don't look nuts, but we both know better.
	Unknown Episode: Harry Senate: Should I go get my gun? Scott Guber: Is there anything that you don't find funny? Harry Senate: Well... your tie.
	Unknown Episode: Harvey Lipschultz: [on what patriotism means to him] Oh, many things. But mostly, it means bombs. As an American, I'm proud to be bombing that terrorist country. You knock down two of our skyscrapers, and we bomb you. Simple.
	Unknown Episode: Harvey Lipschultz: Mess with America, and we answer with three little words: Boom. Boom. And boom.
	Unknown Episode: Zach Delray: [asking Ronnie Cooke to the prom] You know, strictly as a lover, I'm better off the Ritalin.
	Unknown Episode: Scott Guber: Look at me!

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