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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds."
"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."
"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off."
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."
"In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement."
"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men."
"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance."
"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
"Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more."
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
"These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off."
"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
"Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well."
"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."
"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."
"Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life."
"It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever."
"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
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