There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating th…

Stanley Kubrick
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die. ✨ Fictional character: Gen. George Broulard. Paths of Glory, www.imdb.com. 1957.
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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die. ✨ Fictional character: Gen. George Broulard. Paths of Glory, www.imdb.com. 1957.

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