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Friday, 10 June 2016

Prescient?

It is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth — a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men ——

F. Scott Fitzgerald on the USA

4 comments:

  1. If the Europeans had not been stupid enough to engage in two major world wars within thirty years, I wonder what the standing of the USA might be now?

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  2. Demetrius - good question. Such a tragic waste, but now it is gone, the EU cannot bring it back.

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