The spread of metrication around the world in the last two centuries has been met with both support and opposition. All countries except Burma, (Myanmar), Liberia, the United States of America and partially the United Kingdom and Canada have officially adopted the metric system, although actual usage may be more complex.
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“One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and ... powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
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