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Arianna, 19, INFP. Stendhal syndrome. Wolf girl.

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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    Lol this is a bit of an oversimplification.The US has been sitting pretty damned cushy for the last century, and look at...
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