THX 1138
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Umm...
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... my friend? Your point of view...
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Yes, CAM. That's it... Your point is well taken... CAM, but it lacks the balance that a broader and a deeper range of experience can lend it. When l first arrived here, l saw things as you do now. I was confused and anxious about my predicament. I longed to thrash out, to tear down, to destroy and annihilate; to ravage, wreak havoc, and plunder. Being basically level-headed, however, l realized that my first goal should be to study this place, where what seemed blind circumstance had placed me. To follow the train of events and the ever-changing display of characters that l saw before me - of which l am of course a part - and to try to discern a pattern within the confusion.
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I set forth on a program of study which continues up to this very day and which has afforded me afew glimpses - if not actual insights - into the nature of the world around us. I never regretted my youthful passion - quite the contrary, it provided me with the original spark which has since settled down to a comforting and enduring glow. But l would caution you that spark - if uncontrolled - may leap into flames of senseless and disastrous action and consume what you are endeavoring to conserve.
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Listen to the mumblings of an old man and bank those flames with earnest inquiry and honest observation.
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Mumblings is right!
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Do you know how many times we've had to listen to that speech?
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Do you know how many times? We've had to listen to that speech? He thinks everyone's as stupid as he is.
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You know what you are? You make me sick. If we all thought like you they could come in here and... and... do whatever they wanted!
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Sooner or later, you'll be taken away and destroyed just like the others.

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