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No language can ever be permanently the same, James
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The Professor and the Madman

No language can ever bepermanently the same, James

No language can ever be
permanently the same, James

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No language can ever be permanently the same, James.
Duration
4 seconds
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30
Timestamp in Movie
01:41:19
Uploaded
Jun 10, 2025
Genres
biography, drama, history
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Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid-19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William M...
But how can the work be ended if not ever completed? - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
But how can the work be ended if not ever completed?
You have given us its heart along with a great jolt... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
You have given us its heart along with a great jolt...
Generations after you will continue this work... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Generations after you will continue this work...
Because you have showed them the way. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Because you have showed them the way.
Tend to yourself, leave the project to me. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Tend to yourself, leave the project to me.
With Bradley in charge and the University press... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
With Bradley in charge and the University press...
To our desired target of 704 pages a year... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
To our desired target of 704 pages a year...
Sufficiently informed to put the motion to a vote. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Sufficiently informed to put the motion to a vote.
I'm sorry my husband is unable to attend. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
I'm sorry my husband is unable to attend.
I would like to ask permission to say a few words in his stead. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
I would like to ask permission to say a few words in his ste...
My family and I have given much for the glory of the delegates.. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
My family and I have given much for the glory of the delegat...
Mr. Gell, I am certain they can give a few moments... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Mr. Gell, I am certain they can give a few moments...
My husband has this silly, little leather parchment. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
My husband has this silly, little leather parchment.
On it, he's engraved a creed. "Only a most diligent life." - The Professor and the Madman 00:13
On it, he's engraved a creed. "Only a most diligen...
Persistence, application, but also, toil, and pain. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
Persistence, application, but also, toil, and pain.
Of what awaits us all on the other side, but he isn't. - The Professor and the Madman 00:09
Of what awaits us all on the other side, but he isn't.
He sees the world, all of it, with its myriad choices... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
He sees the world, all of it, with its myriad choices...
Yet, two such men found each other in our time. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
Yet, two such men found each other in our time.
My husband and his friend, the murderous madman. - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
My husband and his friend, the murderous madman.
Together they have given us something extraordinary. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
Together they have given us something extraordinary.