Saturday, June 26, 2010

Quote of the Day

I have arrived in Tuoro and will stay here for the next two weeks. Wheeee!

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 that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Orson Welles, "The Third Man" (1949)

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