"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it‘s longer than any hour. That‘s relativity.
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This is the most tactless speech I have ever heard. The Germans are really a stupid people. They always do the wrong thing.
-- Woodrow Wilson, On hearing a speech by German foreign minister Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau at negotiations for what became the Treaty of Versailles 1919