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- Who's there?
- Caesar.
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- What does Caesar want?
- Weapons.
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- For what purpose?
- Self-protection in the pursuit of knowledge.
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- Self-protection against whom or what?
- We don't know.
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Why protect yourself against a danger
of which you have no knowledge,
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in pursuit of a knowledge
you do not possess?
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Oh, God!
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- ls it a knowledge for good or evil?
- All knowledge is for good.
:20:41
Only the use to which you put it
can be good or evil.
:20:45
- Well put.
- Thank you.
:20:48
The sun is rising. l should like to
get this matter settled before it sets.
:20:53
Caesar has appointed me
not only as the keeper ofthis armory,
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but as the keeper of his own conscience.
:20:58
That is why l have asked six boring
questions, and propose to ask a seventh
:21:04
before issuing or not issuing
the weapons you require.
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What is the nature ofthe knowledge
you cannot seek without weapons?
:21:13
The knowledge of Earth's ultimate fate,
recorded on tapes in the forbidden city.
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Which is contaminated,
but still may be inhabited by humans.
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Come in.
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- Name your protective pick.
- Three submachine-guns.
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- For?
- The removal of obstacles.
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One...
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Two...
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- And three. Now what?
- Ammunition.
:21:51
l really don't hold with knowing the future -
even my own, which is short.
:21:56
A Geiger counter.
:21:58
lf we knew for a fact there was an afterlife,
and that the afterlife was bliss eternal,