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Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. — Oskar Schindler

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Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

Oskar Schindler
Schindler's List · 1993
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Schindler's List. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures, 1993.

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