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You have meddled with the primal forces
of nature, Mr Beale, and i won’t have it!

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Is that clear?

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You think you’ve merely stopped a
business deal. That is not the case!

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The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out
of this country, and now they must put it back!

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It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity!
It is ecological balance!

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You are an old man who thinks
in terms of nations and peoples.

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There <i>are</i> no nations. There <i>are</i> no peoples.
There are no Russians. There are no Arabs.

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There are no third worlds.
There is no West!

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There is only one holistic system of systems:

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One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting,
multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.

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Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars,
reichmarks, rins, roubles, pounds, and shekels.

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It is the international system of currency which
determines the totality of life on this planet.

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That is the natural order of things today.

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<i>That</i> is the atomic and subatomic and
galactic structure of things today!

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And <i>you</i> have meddled with
the primal forces of nature!

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And <i>you… will… atone!</i>

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(Am i getting through to you, Mr Beale?)

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You get up on your little 21″ screen
and howl about America and democracy.

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There is no “America”.
There is no “democracy”.

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There is only <c.all-sc>IBM</c>, and <c.all-sc>ITT</c>, and <c.all-sc>AT&T</c>.

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And DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide,
and Exxon.

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Those <i>are</i> the nations of the world today.

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What do you think the Russians talk about
in their councils of state? Karl Marx?

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They get out their
linear-programming charts,

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Statistical decision theories,
minimax solutions,

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And compute the price–cost probabilities
of their transactions and investments,

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Just like we do.

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We no longer live in a world of
nations and ideologies, Mr Beale.

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The world is a college of corporations,

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Inexorably determined by the
immutable bylaws of business.

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The world is a business, Mr Beale.

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It has been since
man crawled out of the slime.

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And our children will live,
Mr Beale, to see that...

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…<i>Perfect</i> world…

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…In which there’s no war or famine,
oppression or brutality.

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One vast and ecumenical holding company,

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For whom all men will work
to serve a common profit,

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In which all men will hold
a share of stock.

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All necessities provided.

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All anxieties tranquillised.

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All boredom amused.

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And i have chosen you, Mr Beale,
to preach this evangel.

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<c.yellow>—But why me?</c>

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—Because you’re on television, dummy.