>>>>( remember *why* the boulevards in Paris are so wide <s> )
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>>>So Napoleon could ride with his cavalry and pass under the Triumph gate?
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>>No, so parading German troops wouldn't feel cramped ( oops, sorry, that just slipped out )
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>I was actually considering that the US should return the statue of liberty, since it comes from such a nation who won't jump into any new wars without a cause. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
We paid for it. Ever been to Normandy?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
