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Halla: Economic sabotage.
Ása: It's extremism, which breeds extremism. He who Jives by the sword, dies by the sword.
Halla: But no one has been hurt, except our country and our planet.
Ása: It's not the right way to solve this problem.
Halla: Meditating in some convent, will that change something?
Ása: It will change me and thus the world I hope.
Halla: Isn't that egoism, to think it will change the world?
Ása: The drop hollows the stone.
Halla: The stone? The mountains are falling on us, we don't have time to wait for drops.
Ása: Now you're going to save a child and the entire world with it. Isn't that a small drop or is it just vanity?
Halla: At least I'm doing something for someone else.
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Ása: You don't need anyone else. You know that you can do it. You're the mom and nothing will stop you.
[stands up from the bench and faces Halla]
Ása: What did mom always say?
Halla: Yeah.
Ása: Yes, say it.
Halla: Moms can do anything.
Ása: [laughs] No, the other thing.
Halla: Find solutions.
Ása: Exactly.
Benedikt Erlingsson
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