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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Approximate author period: c. 1939 AD · modern
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- Alfred Hitchcock
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- Approximate author period: c. 1939 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Alfred Hitchcock, based on documented lifetime 1899 to 1980. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7374 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7374 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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