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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many."
"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."
"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
"You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not."
"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."
"The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?"
"You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools."
"It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves."
"In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm."
"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."
"Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning."
"When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste."
"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
"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 do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all."
"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
"Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working."
"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future."
"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."
"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."
"It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument."
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