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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."

"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"

"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."

"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."

"They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide."


"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."


"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."


"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."


"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."


"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."

"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."

"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."


"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

"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."


"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."

"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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