Craving Yoda’s funny and wise pontifications, I went and found some quotes, with their charming and haunting backward sentence structure:
No. Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try.
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Much to learn, you still have.
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Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
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Ready, are you? What know you of ready?
For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi.
My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained!
A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind.
(to the invisible Ben, indicating Luke)
This one a long time have I watched.
All his life has he looked away…
to the future, to the horizon.
Never his mind on where he was.
Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph.
Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh!
A Jedi craves not these things.
(turning to Luke)
You are reckless.
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Yes, a Jedi’s strength flows from the Force.
But beware of the dark side.
Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they.
Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight.
If once you start down the dark path,
forever will it dominate your destiny,
consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.
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Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
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You will know when you are calm, at peace. Passive.
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
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When you look at the dark side, careful you must be.
For the dark side looks back.
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You will find only what you bring in.
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm?
Hmm. And well you should not.
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.
Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes.
Even between the land and the ship.
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When 900 years old you reach, look as good, you will not.
