All right, if you want to know the truth, I don't much care for the time I was born into. It seems people aren't dying fast enough these days. They call upon science to invent new, more efficient weapons to depopulate the earth.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

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15 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:19:37 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Will you answer me one question, honestly?

- Yes, I'll try.

- Why this preoccupation with time?

- Why not?

- Don't go simple on me, George.

- All right, if you want to know the truth, I don't much care for the time I was born into. It seems people aren't dying fast enough these days. They call upon science to invent new, more efficient weapons to depopulate the earth.

- And I agree with you. I agree, but here we are and we have to make the best of it.

- You may have to. I don't.

- All right. Take your journey on your contraption.

- What would you become? A Greek? A Roman? One of the Pharaohs?

[...]

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