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Letter "C" » cuckoo clock
«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.»
Author: Orson Welles
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Keywords:
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da Vinci,
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Leonardo da Vinci,
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Renaissance,
Switzerland,
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Thirty Years,
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«In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!»
Author: Simone Weil
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Activist,
Mystic,
Philosopher)
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About:
Country,
Democracy,
Peace
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Keywords:
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cuckoo,
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Switzerland
«The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.»