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• It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. --Napoleon I
• Passing directly from barbarism to decadence.
• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  WILDE...
• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  - Oscar Wilde...
• To be complacent is to be but one step from decay. -- Gilt Proto
• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism when they come separately.
  When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve one's sanity....
• America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  -- George Clemenceau (1841-1929) (also attributed to Oscar Wilde)...
• Polaroid does it in one step.