"Let us then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things, " he said in a classic expression of our great tradition of conciliation.

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The spaceship Nostromo is hauling a dreary cargo of ore back to Earth when it inadvertently allows an unpleasant intruder on board, and ordinary life becomes a nightmare.

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