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Quotes by Italian Authors
"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."
"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."
"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
"It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews."
"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."
"When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger."
"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."
"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
"But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more."
"Fine gold is recognized when it is tested."
"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
"The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace."
"An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment."
"I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother."
"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."
"I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest."
"Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?"
"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."
"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."
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
"It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything."
"The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others."
"Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap."
"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."
"The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most."
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
"As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament."
"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
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