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'''Leo''': I don't want to tell you.
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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', on the subject of [
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'''Breya''': I... I really want to know, but I think I'm afraid to ''ask''.
'''Tagon''': That's a good sign that you don't really want to know. }}
** Also [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] - [
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'''Elf''': I don't want to know.
'''Aardman''': Yes you do. You just don't want to admit it. }}
** Admiral Tebbir would feel better [
** A belated realization from a retired (and hired by another party) military intelligence analyst (amazingly, they discuss not an assassination, but something ostensibly innocent):
{{quote|'''Trevor''': ...the sergeant can make his merry way to any one of these locations and do his thing. Whatever "his thing" is.
'''Kathryn''': "His thing" is one of those "the less you know about it the happier you'll be" things.
'''Trevor''': I'm unhappy just knowing those things exist.}}
** [[Iron Woobie|Captain Haley Sorlie]] is a [
{{quote|'''Breya''': There are going to be many interesting things for you to see.
'''Sorlie''': Will I want to un-see any of them?
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* ''[[Freefall]]'' uses a [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00036.htm variation on this].
** [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2700/fc02688.htm Not if you want to sleep], at least.
* ''[[Nodwick]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100814074224/http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2006-10-18 theology] has this effect:
{{quote|'''Artax''': The ''more'' i learn about gods, the ''less'' i want to know.}}
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