Stable Time Loop/Quotes
Time Agent 1: Captain, why did you take the Defiant back in time? —Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Trials and Tribble-ations"
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Nagato: Since there's no conclusion to the paradox theory, there's no way to prove there's no paradox. —Suzumiya Haruhi: Bamboo Rhapsody
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The idea here is that you can travel back in time, but you can't actually change history. So if you go back and try to prevent the assassination of President McKinley, it turns out that you killed him yourself. Or if you go back and try and prevent the Black Plague, it turns out that you are a flea-ridden diseased rat.
—Lore Sjöberg, "Alt Text"
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GC: BY NOW YOU SHOULD R34L1Z3 TH1S WHOL3 M3SS W4S 4 B1G S3LF FULLF1LL1NG CLUST3RFUCK —gallowsCalibrator/Terezi Pyrope, Homestuck
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In fact that was even more puzzling, when Harry thought about it. Time had presented him with the finished Prank as a fait accompli, and yet it was, quite clearly, his own handiwork. Concept and execution and writing style. Every last part, even the ones he still didn't understand.
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Idris: House eats TARDISes. —Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Wife"
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I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words...I scatter them. Across time and space. My message to lead myself here.
—Rose Tyler / The TARDIS, "The Parting of the Ways"
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The Archmage: Are you certain you know what to do? |
Pierce: "I don't believe you, causality is--" |
"Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to do it, in which case, for the love of God, don't not do it!"
—Professor Farnsworth, Futurama, "Roswell That Ends Well"
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1971 Robo: You're going to learn the hell out of hyperdimensional mathematics when you get back. Focus on electrodynamics. —Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time
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"No one can unmake the past. It's already happened, there's no 'undo'. Similarly, the future already happened. we just haven't reached it yet."
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