And so we go
On with our lives
We know the truth
But prefer lies
Lies are simple
Simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat?

- NOFX, "The Decline"

"By the way, Harry, now that I'm utterly dead, it seems a good time to tell you that I was quite the arse-bandit in my youth. Do stop feeling compassion for that wretched flayed child under your seat." - air_and_angels, here

PRINCESS LEIA: Luke, tell me. What's troubling you?
LUKE: Vader is here, now, on this moon.
PRINCESS LEIA: How do you know?
LUKE: I felt his presence. He's come for me. He can feel when I'm near. That's why I have to go. As long as I stay, I'm endangering the group and our mission here. I have to face him.

- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

THE EMPEROR: Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

THE EMPEROR: Rise, my friend.
DARTH VADER: The Death Star will be completed on schedule.
THE EMPEROR: You've done well, Lord Vader. And now I sense you wish to continue your search for young Skywalker.
DARTH VADER: Yes, my Master.
THE EMPEROR: Patience, my friend. In time, he will seek you out, and when he does, you must bring him before me. He has grown strong. Only together can we turn him to the Dark Side of the Force.
DARTH VADER: As you wish.
THE EMPEROR: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

LANDO CALRISSIAN: [Seeing the Death Star is operational] Home One, this is Gold Leader.
ADMIRAL ACKBAR: We saw it. All craft, prepare to retreat.
LANDO CALRISSIAN: We won't get another chance at this, Admiral.
ADMIRAL ACKBAR: We have no choice, General Calrissian! Our cruisers can't repel firepower of that magnitude!
LANDO CALRISSIAN: Han will have that shield down. We've got to give him more time!

- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

TITLE CRAWL: It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy. Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth...

- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

CHANCELLOR PALPATINE: Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
ANAKIN SKYWALKER: No.
CHANCELLOR PALPATINE: I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the Dark Side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.
ANAKIN SKYWALKER: He could actually save people from death?

- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

"For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word 'meaning' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein