Nice speech, David, but there's still a practical side to it.

3 seconds sound clip from the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:09:57.138 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- How many thousands of ways nature tried to get life out of the sea and onto the land.

- This one failed. He hasn't changed in millions of years.

- But here, here we have a clue to an answer.

- Someday, spaceships will be traveling from Earth to other planets. How are human beings going to survive on those planets? The atmosphere will be different, the pressures will be different.

- By studying these and other species, we add to our knowledge of how life evolved, how it adapted itself to this world. With that knowledge, perhaps we can teach men to adapt themselves to some new world of the future.

- Nice speech, David, but there's still a practical side to it.

- If I sound brash and more like a banker than a scientist, try to remember that it takes money to run an institute like ours.

- A find of any real importance can be of great financial value to us also.

- Certainly, your board couldn't disapprove.

- It certainly couldn't.

- Dr. Maia, you've got yourself an expedition.

- Good, we'll leave for Manaus in the morning. From there, we'll take a boat up river.

[...]

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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Sound Clip

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Sound clips of the best quotes from the 1954 monster horror film "Creature from the Black Lagoon".

Actors: Richard Carlson (Dr. David Reed), Julia Adams (Kay Lawrence), Richard Denning (Dr. Mark Williams), Antonio Moreno (Dr. Carl Maia)

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