Archives for the month of: April, 2007

Antitrust creates an atmosphere in which the prominently successful are potential criminals, simply because they are prominent.

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In one of the most striking minor roles in cinema history, Orson Welles’ Third Man speech:

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 that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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