| From the Speech from The Great Dictator
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| «I'm sorry, but I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone.
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| I should like to help everyone if possible-
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| We all want to help one another.
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| Human beings are like that.
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| We want to live by each others' happiness,
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| not by each other’s misery.
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| We don’t want to hate and despise one another.
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| In this world there is room for everyone.
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| And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
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| The way of life can be free and beautiful,
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| but we have lost the way.
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| Greed has poisoned men’s souls. |
| "
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| (Instrumental)
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| «We have developed speed,
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| but we have shut ourselves in.
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| Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
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| Our knowledge has made us cynical; |
| our cleverness,
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| hard and unkind.
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| We think too much and feel too little.
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| More than machinery, we need humanity.
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| More than cleverness,
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| we need kindness and gentleness.
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| Without these qualities,
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| life will be violent and all will be lost.»
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| (Instrumental)
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| «The hate of men will pass, and dictators die,
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| and the power they took from the people will return to the people.»
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| (Instrumental)
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| «You, the people, have the power,
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| the power to create machines,
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| the power to create happiness!
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| You, the people,
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| have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
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| to make this life a wonderful adventure.
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| Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. |
| Let us all unite.
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| Let us all unite.
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| Use that power. |
| Let us all unite.
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| Let us all unite.
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| Use that power. |
| Let us all unite." |