We have a rule. We never free a mind once it's reached a certain age. It's dangerous. The mind has trouble letting go.

Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne)

11 seconds sound clip from the The Matrix movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:44:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- He's gonna pop.

- Breathe, Neo. Just breathe.

- I can't go back, can I?

- No. But if you could, would you really want to?

- I feel I owe you an apology.

- We have a rule. We never free a mind once it's reached a certain age. It's dangerous. The mind has trouble letting go.

- I've seen it before, and I'm sorry.

- I did what I did because, I had to.

- When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted to remake the Matrix as he saw fit.

- It was he who freed the first of us... taught us the truth.

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