Saturday, March 31st, 2007
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 17,133
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Re: What is your opinion on the independence of Andorra?
Andorra is the result of a mediaeval state having survived until modern days. It has no other significance nor any other reason to exist.
Romantic? As much as the Grand Duchy of Moscow of 1300 or the Novgorod Feudal Republic of 1200.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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