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Strange But True.

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:06 am
by jones jones
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."



Remark by the character Harry Lime played by Orson Welles in the 1949 movie ‘The Third Man’