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Quotes by Italian Authors

"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
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Umberto Guidoni
"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
"In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you."
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Dario Argento
"In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you."
"When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life."
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Monica Bellucci
"When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life."
"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
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Leonardo da Vinci
"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
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Gianni Agnelli
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
"Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence."
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Alphonsus Liguori
"Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence."
"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me."
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me."
"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
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Thomas Aquinas
"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
"Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times."
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Nick Mancuso
"Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times."
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"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."
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Niccolo Machiavelli
"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."
"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
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Cesare Pavese
"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
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"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
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Thomas Aquinas
"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
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Umberto Guidoni
"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
"National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same."
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Umberto Eco
"National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same."
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
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Galileo Galilei
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
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Leonardo da Vinci
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
"When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe."
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Dario Argento
"When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe."
"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."
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Dante Alighieri
"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."
"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging."
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Francis of Assisi
"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging."
"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."
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Dante Alighieri
"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."
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"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
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Galileo Galilei
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
"From a little spark may burst a flame."
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Dante Alighieri
"From a little spark may burst a flame."
"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion."
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Donatella Versace
"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion."
"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
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Italo Calvino
"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
"I love to doubt as well as know."
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Dante Alighieri
"I love to doubt as well as know."
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"They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide."
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Antonio Pigafetta
"They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide."
"But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place."
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Dario Argento
"But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place."
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
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Thomas Aquinas
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
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Niccolo Machiavelli
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
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Cesare Pavese
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
"I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage."
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Greta Scacchi
"I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage."
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"Fascism is not an article for export."
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Benito Mussolini
"Fascism is not an article for export."
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
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Sophia Loren
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
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"We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part."
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Giacomo Casanova
"We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part."
"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
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Thomas Aquinas
"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
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"To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds."
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Petrarch
"To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds."
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
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Thomas Aquinas
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate."
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Emma Bonino
"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate."
"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
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Claudia Cardinale
"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
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"I was an elementary school teacher."
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Luciano Pavarotti
"I was an elementary school teacher."
"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."
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Francis of Assisi
"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love."
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Francis of Assisi
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love."
"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
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Italo Calvino
"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
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"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
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Sophia Loren
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
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Leonardo da Vinci
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
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Benito Mussolini
"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
"Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist."
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Andrea Bocelli
"Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist."
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"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
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Thomas Aquinas
"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
"To tell the truth is revolutionary."
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Antonio Gramsci
"To tell the truth is revolutionary."
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"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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Francis of Assisi
"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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