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Harry Potter, in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
I understand people. Imperius! People, I command you to build me a moon rocket!
-- Draco
...That might actually work, as long as he understands which people to Imperius.
That arguably counts as LW/OB.
If HPMoR isn't allowed, that should be specified in the rules.
I mean that it's a nice quote, but I suspect that's the reason for the downvotes.
I'm not overly impressed with the quote either. Sometimes you can understand things and still not command them. Sometimes you just lose and all understanding you can get will just tell you to go do something else that you can control.
It is arguably a lot more affiliated to LW than OB is. (We successfully got OB removed from the no-quote list at some stage. Unfortunately someone reverted it.)