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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
-- Renata Adler |
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Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
-- Renata Adler |
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
-- Dante Alighieri |
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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
-- Dante Alighieri |
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
-- Renata Adler |
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All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
-- Gianni Agnelli |
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And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.
-- Gianni Agnelli |
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And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.
-- Gianni Agnelli |
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
-- Dante Alighieri |
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Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
-- Giulio Andreotti |
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I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
-- Giulio Andreotti |
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