By some awful quirk of fate...

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

You can hear this line at 01:13:11 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- The important thing you should know is that I am the last who remembers how each of us, man and woman, made his own decision.

- Some chose to take refuge in the great caverns and find a new way of life far below the earth's surface.

- The rest of us decided to take our chances in the sunlight... small as those chances might be.

(RING FALLING SOUND) (2)

- From the talking rings I learned how the human race divided itself and how the world of the Eloi and the Morlocks began.

- By some awful quirk of fate...

- The Morlocks had become the masters and the Eloi their servants.

- The Morlocks maintained them and bred them like cattle. Only to take them below when they reached maturity.

- Which explained why there were no older people among them.

- I knew I must go below. It was the only means of finding a way up into the sphinx to reach my machine and find out what happened to the people when they did go below.

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You're right, David. That's exactly what I have. All the time in the world.
Why is it that we usually ignore the forth dimension? Because we have no freedom of movement within it. You see, we can move in the other three: Up, down, forward, sideways, backward, but when it comes to time, we are prisoners.
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