Come now, you've never read an actuarial table in your life, have you? Why, they've got 10 volumes on suicide alone.

8 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:07:15 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- I haven't, eh? She can go to court and we can prove it was suicide.

- Oh, can we?

- The first thing that struck me was that suicide angle. Only I dumped it into the wastepaper basket just three seconds later.

- You know, you ought to take a look at the statistics on suicide sometime. You might learn a little something about the insurance business.

- I was raised in the insurance business.

- Yeah, in the front office.

- Come now, you've never read an actuarial table in your life, have you? Why, they've got 10 volumes on suicide alone.

- Suicide by race, by color, by occupation by sex, by seasons of the year, by time of day.

- Suicide, how committed? By poisons, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps.

- Suicide by poison, subdivided by types of poison such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic alkaloid, protein, and so forth.

- Suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places under the wheels of trains, under the wheels of trucks under the feet of horses, from steamboats.

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