No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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