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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! — Orson Welles

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As a young man, I was determined to change the world. As I matured, I narrowed my goals to changing my community. Still later, I decided to change only my family. Now I realize that it is all I can do to change myself. — the Rebbe of Apt

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[Clouseau is walking through a pitch-black room with a match in his hand; calling out] Clouseau: Is there anybody hiding there in the dark? — Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther Strikes Again a very existentialist sort of quote, if you contemplate it