13 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:02:44 in the radio play.
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- Ten miles long, two miles wide... ants, nothing but ants! And each one as big as your thumb and each of them a fiend from hell.
- 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.
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