Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the streets. There's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

— Howard Beale (Peter Finch)

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7 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:53:52.254 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- This has been the most divisive meeting the oil states have ever had. The 13 nations of OPEC have still not been able to decide by how much to increase the price of oil. Saudi Arabian...

- How much time we got?

- Take two, cue Howard.

- I don't have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.

- The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust.

- Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the streets. There's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

- We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat.

- We sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

- We know things are bad. Worse than bad, they're crazy.

- It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is: Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms!

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