"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one."
-Pope John XXIII
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"It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.“
-Pope John XXIII
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"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone."
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"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."
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"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."
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-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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