From the mixing feet of treaders to the pouring hands of brick molders moves the constant stream of mud, the lowly seed of tall cities, day after day, year after year, century after century.
18 seconds sound clip from the The Ten Commandments (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:08:54.431 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Endlessly they plod beneath the sheaves of wheat, and endlessly return for more.
- And everywhere the lash of watchful taskmasters ready to sting the backs of the weary.
- Blades chopping straw. Mattocks chopping clay. A ceaseless cycle of unending drudgery.
- Bondage without rest, toil without reward.
- That's a hard dance you do, old man.
- We've been dancing it for 400 years to grim music.
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