Quiet Please - If I Should Wake Before I Die
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Quiet Please - If I Should Wake Before I Die

B1IntermediateOctober 4, 202628 min

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American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and this features Ernest Chappell.

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Quiet, please. American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and this features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for today is called, If I Should Wait Before I Die. I'm a practical man. I want you to understand that I am practical, utterly practical.

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That I believe nothing that cannot be proved beyond the shadow of the doubt. I know that men live because the lives of many of them impinge on me who also live. I believe that they die because I've seen them die. Pure knowledge. I've devoted most of my forty-seven years to its pursuit.

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The application of the knowledge I gain is a small moment to me. I may say that it is of no moment whatever. The experiment, the deduction and proof of new natural laws is the be-all and the end-all, as I believe the poet put it. And their application is not my province.

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