I wanna tell you that the reason for my success as a sergeant is due primarily to my previous training in the Corn Belt Loan and Trust Company.

8 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:53:55.323 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- And I'm glad to see you've all pulled through so well.

- As Mr. Milton so perfectly expressed it, our country stands today where it stands today. Wherever that is.

- And I'm sure you'd all agree with me if I said that now's the time for all of us to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks, forget about the war, and go fishing.

- But I'm not gonna say it. I'm just going to sum the whole thing up in one word.

- My wife doesn't think I'd better sum it up in that one word.

- I wanna tell you that the reason for my success as a sergeant is due primarily to my previous training in the Corn Belt Loan and Trust Company.

- The knowledge I acquired in the good old bank I applied to my problems in the infantry.

- For instance, one day in Okinawa, a major comes up to me he says, Stephenson, you see that hill?

- Yes, sir. I see it.

- All right, he said. You and your platoon will attack said hill and take it.

- So I said to the major, But, uh, that operation involves considerable risk. We haven't sufficient collateral.

- I'm aware of that, said the major, but the fact remains, that there is the hill and you are the guys who are going to take it.

- So I said to him, I'm sorry, major. No collateral, no hill. So we didn't take the hill, and we lost the war.

[...]

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Memorable quotes from the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry), Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)

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