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- Listen, when I was in prison, I learned that everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality...
- But the perception of reality.

9 seconds sound clip from the Sneakers movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:04:07.660 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- What's wrong with this country, Marty? Money. You taught me that. Evil defense contractors had it, noble causes did not.

- Politicians are bought and sold like so much chattel. Our problems multiply: pollution, crime, drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair.

- We throw gobs of money at them. The problems always get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it.

- I agree. Who did you say you were working for?

- Oh, that's just my day job.

- Listen, when I was in prison, I learned that everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality...

- But the perception of reality.

- Posit, people think a bank might be financially shaky.

- Consequence, people start to withdraw their money.

- Result, pretty soon, it is financially shaky.

- Conclusion, you can make banks fail.

- I've already done that. Maybe you've read about a few?

- Think bigger.

- Stock market?

- Yes.

- Currency market?

- Commodities market?

- Yes.

- Small countries?

- I might even be able to crash the whole damn system. Destroy all records of ownership. Think of it, Marty. No more rich people. No more poor people. Everybody's the same. Isn't that what we said we always wanted?

- Cos, you haven't gone crazy on me, have you?

[...]

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Actors: Robert Redford (Martin Bishop), Ben Kingsley (Cosmo), Sidney Poitier (Crease), David Strathairn (Whistler), Dan Aykroyd (Mother), River Phoenix (Carl), Mary McDonnell (Liz Ogilvy), Stephen Tobolowsky (Werner Brandes), James Earl Jones (Bernard Abbott)

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