Otto Magnus Von

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    Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
    Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)

    Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
    —Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)

    Talent is formed in solitude,
    Character in the bustle of the world.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)