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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude."
"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
"I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce."
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
"God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle."
"As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously."
"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
"Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks."
"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."
"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists."
"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."
"But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more."
"It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine."
"Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized."
"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."
"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love."
"I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us."
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
"It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention."
"I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother."
"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
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