Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse. It's confusing enough, for heaven's sakes.
— Archimedes (Junius Matthews)
7 seconds sound clip from the The Sword in the Stone (1963) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:54:32.419 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- If the boy goes about saying the world is round, they'll take him for a lunatic.
- You mean, it'll be round someday?
- Man will discover this in centuries to come.
- And he will also find that the world is merely a tiny speck in the universe.
- So, from now on, boy, you do as I say.
- Now, to start off, I want you to read these books.
- That, my boy, is a mountain of knowledge.
- What, what? What! And I don't suppose you know how to write?
- No, sir. Well, what do you know?
- Never mind, never mind. We'll start at the bottom. The ABC's.
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