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House · Season 2, Episode 4

“TB or Not TB” quotes from House

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“TB or Not TB” · Season 2, Episode 4

In this episode: Gregory House (5), Eric Foreman (2), James Wilson (1), Allison Cameron (1)

SSebastian

Every minute four people die of TB.

Wow, how can you sleep at night?

SSebastian

There's people dying in Africa of a disease that we cured over...

Yeah, I know, I saw the concert. Seriously, let's say you sleep six hours, that means every night you kill 1440 people. I guess you gotta get some sleep, but come on, if you'd stayed up another ten minutes you could have saved forty lives. Do you send notes to the families in the morning? That's gonna take at least ten minutes, so that's another forty dead, another forty notes... why don't you go wrack yourself with guilt in your own room?

Every minute that we refuse to love one another, another puppy cries another tear.

You're just mad because he's closer to a Nobel Prize than you are.

And yet I've nailed more Swedish babes. Crazy, crazy world.

It's not just the trip to Stockholm, you know. It comes with a cash prize.

Seriously? No wonder everybody is going after that peace thing.

He cures thousands of people every year, you cure what 30?

McDonalds makes a better hamburger than your mother because they make more?

Oh, I see, so you hate him because the lives he saves aren't as good as the lives you save?

Yep, that's the reason. Nobel invented dynamite, I won't accept his blood money.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

Hmmm. So, the great humanitarian's as selfish as the rest of us.

Just not as honest about it.

You want third-world treatment? [Turns up the thermostat] You got it. Boy, is it hot here in Johnny!

What are you doing?

What am I doing? [He knocks Sebastian's things onto the floor] Putting everything on the floor of the hut. Uh oh, wicked magic box with the moving pictures!

You think he's a hypocrite?

[Unplugging the TV] Hypocrite? No, everybody in Africa's got cell phones or running water. [He has dropped Sebastian's cell phone in the toilet] Ha! This thing just will not flush.

SSebastian

Do you really think that if you come in here and make it a little hot, make it smell a little, that I'm just going to fold and abandon everything that matters to me?

[Wiping his cane on Sebastian's blanket] Lousy sanitation over there, too. You are not the same as them; your life is not the same. And you are cheapening everything they're going through by pretending you are.

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