"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

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“I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.”

“We will never forget. If it takes us five or ten or twenty years, we will never rest until we get our revenge.”

“What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?”

“I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.”

“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.”

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