Italy for 30 years had war, terror, and murder under the Borgias, but in that time produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance; Switzerland had 500 years of peace and democracy—and produced the cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles – http://www.economist.com/news/21566430-where-be-born-2013-lottery-life

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