Marquis de Mirabeau

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    The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigour of mathematical calculation.
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    an optimist is a guy
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    To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
    HonorĂ© Gabriel Riquet, Comte De Mirabeau (1749–1791)