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“In America, being able to get things done, especially if it's by bending rules, making exceptions, or calling in a favor, is the way to show power. In France, being able to say non (especially to a bureaucratically legitimate request) is the way to show power. And piss me off.”
― Vivian Swift, Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France