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    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir
    Wiki. No surprise.
    Sorry Vlad.

    The quote to which I referred is from the film "The Third Man", where the antagonist Harry Lime says:

    Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 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 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
    It was a tongue-in-cheek example of a control experiment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
    Sorry Vlad.

    The quote to which I referred is from the film "The Third Man", where the antagonist Harry Lime says:



    It was a tongue-in-cheek example of a control experiment.
    You didn't know of my fetish for JSTOR. Consider it a compliment and be glad it wasn't, Wiki. Never heard of that film but the quote is familiar.
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    Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
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