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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.

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.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- And I could not help wondering about the strange look in the Commissioner's eyes as he boarded his launch and cast off.

[...]

Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) Sound Clip

Leiningen Versus the Ants (Escape)Quotes with voice clips from Leiningen Versus the Ants - Escape Radio Show episode aired on January 14th, 1948, based on a story by Carl Stephenson.

Actors: William Conrad (Leiningen), Lou Merrill (The Commissioner)

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