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Quotes by Italian Authors
"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
"At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage."
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."
"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
"Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum."
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
"The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life."
"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
"Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper."
"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
"If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season."
"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."
"Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy."
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do."
"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
"My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family."
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