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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."
"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."
"You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation."
"If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love."
"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."
"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
"I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets."
"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
"Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them."
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."
"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."
"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
"Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him."
"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
"In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child."
"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
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