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Wedge is a popular and important character of the original Star Wars trilogy despite his brief screen time. IGN named Wedge the 24th greatest Star Wars character of all time, claiming "Wedge Antilles may be the most important ancillary character in the Star Wars universe".
Wedge (almost always alongside another Red Squadron wingman, Biggs Darklighter) is a recurring character and a running gag in the Final Fantasy video game series (for example, Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and even games outside of the Final Fantasy Universe (but made by the same company, Squaresoft) such as Chrono Trigger and Kingdom Hearts II). The worlds and characters of Final Fantasy are different in almost every game, and so there are many versions of Biggs and Wedge as Final Fantasy characters.
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.”
—Henry David David (1817–1862)