All my life, I have lived with one creed: The human brain needs only to become fully aware of its powers to conquer even the elements.

— Leiningen (William Conrad)

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12 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:02:56 in the radio play.

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- Unless you clear out at once, there'll he nothing left of you but a skeleton, picked as clean as your own plantation'll be.

- I'm not getting out.

- But you can't fight this...

- Yes, I can!

- I've got the best weapon there is, Commissioner... intelligence.

- But can't I make you understand...?

- I think it is you who do not understand.

- In the three years I've been here, I've met and defeated more than one catastrophe: flood, drought, a plague... events which caused many of my neighbors to flee for their lives.

- All my life, I have lived with one creed: The human brain needs only to become fully aware of its powers to conquer even the elements.

- Your obstinacy is endangering not only your own life, but the lives of your workers and their families.

- You don't know these ants! I tell you, you don't know these ants!

- But he merely sat there, puffing at his cigar and regarding me with a smug grin. And I knew it was hopeless.

- As I boarded my launch and cast off, I realized I'd never met a man like that.

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