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	Accademia di San Rocco - Official site of the resident ensemble of the baroque festival "Feste Musicali per San Rocco" taking place in Venice.
	Accademia Musicale Vicentina - Cultural association promoting the diffusion of classical music by means of organizing baroque, chamber music, symphonic, vocal and opera concerts.
	Alessio Monti - Guitarist and composer: biography, reviews, discography, and demo programs.
	Italian Chamber Orchestra - Non profit organization aimed at discovering and training young professional musicians. Description of the orchestra, special events, master classes, and a photo gallery.
	Accademia San Felice - Classical music company based in Florence. Group history, information on concerts and festivals, listing of recorded music and courses offered.
	Il Rossignolo - Baroque ensemble performs using original instruments, occasionally expanding to include other instruments or singers. Short biography of members and discography.
	Giuseppe Verdi Cultural Society - Dedicated to the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the death of this composer. Image gallery, bibliography, lesson plans and suggested itineraries in the area surrounding Verdi's hometown.

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Gamble, Escape, short story All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Classical The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Classical "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Classical "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Classical All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Classical Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Classical I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Classical "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Classical "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. 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Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Classical Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Classical My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. 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