Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.
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One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.
Julius Streicher
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
Edwin Meese
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill