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But when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself.

6 seconds sound clip from the Monty Python's The Meaning of Life movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:49:09.919 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Tablecloth, sir?

- Yes, get the tablecloth. (Gunshot) - No, no, I'll get the tablecloth.

- You better get the gate leg table, Hordern.

- And the little lamp, sir?

- Yes.

- Oh, and while you're at it, you'd better get a doily.

- I'll bring two, sir, in case one gets crumpled.

- Okay!

- But, of course, warfare isn't all fun.

- Right. Stop that. It's all very well to laugh at the military...

- But when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself.

- And without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint, against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could quite simply disappear.

- That is why we'll always need an army. And may God strike me down were it to be otherwise.

- Don't stand there gawping, like you've never seen the hand of God before!

- Now, today we're going to do marching up and down the square. That is, unless any of you got anything better to do.

- Well? Anyone got anything they'd rather be doing, than marching up and down the square?

[...]

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Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

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