Otto Von

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    Politics is the art of the possible.
    Otto Von Bismarck (1815–1898)

    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)

    To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)