General Timms: These tiny particles of matter, which are so small that no one's ever seen them - never - they contain enough energy to blow up this house, an entire city, every person on Earth. Now that is inconceivable.
Hoover: General, I really don't think much about those things. I'd probably see too much.
General Timms: What do you see?
Hoover: People dead before their time.
General Timms: That's the history of the world, Lieutenant. Some people die before their time so that others can live; it's the cornerstone of civilization, uh… war, religion, democracy… a hundred die so that a thousand may live.
Hoover: Well, General, I take 'em one at a time.
Hoover: General, I really don't think much about those things. I'd probably see too much.
General Timms: What do you see?
Hoover: People dead before their time.
General Timms: That's the history of the world, Lieutenant. Some people die before their time so that others can live; it's the cornerstone of civilization, uh… war, religion, democracy… a hundred die so that a thousand may live.
Hoover: Well, General, I take 'em one at a time.
General Timms : These tiny particles of matter, which are so small that no one's ever seen them - never - they contain enough energy to blow up this house, an entire city, every person on Earth. Now that is inconceivable.
Hoover : General, I really don't think much about those things. I'd probably see too much.
General Timms : What do you see?
Hoover : People dead before their time.
General Timms : That's the history of the world, Lieutenant. Some people die before their time so that others can live; it's the cornerstone of civilization, uh… war, religion, democracy… a hundred die so that a thousand may live.
Hoover : Well, General, I take 'em one at a time.
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