Chamber of Deputies - Chamber of the parliament. Extensive introduction and navigational aid to the Italian language section.
The Constitutional Court - Description of the organization and the functioning of the court which ensures the respect of the rigidity of the Constitution.
Ipu.org: Italy - Profile of the chambers of the parliament, general information, electoral system, last elections, and parliamentary mandate.
Italian Communications Authority - Regulatory authority for telecommunications, press, radio and television. Overview of the regulation of the media.
Italian Competition Authority - Rulings over agreements, abuses of dominant position, mergers and acquisitions that impede competition, misleading and comparative advertising.
I. A. O. - Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare - Supports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the agricultural and in the development cooperation in Africa, Latin America and Asia fields. Documentation and databases.
Ancitel S.p.A. - Links the local authorities within a network. Description of the services offered to the municipalities.
A.R.A.N. - Representative agency competent for the collective bargaining for the public service. Organization and activities.
Multinational North Brigade - History, structure and information about Brigata Sassari, military unit located in Sarajevo.
Ministry of Communications - Contains rulings for the postal, financial products and telecommunications, as well as national legislative outline and some laws.
Minister of Justice - Describes the constitutional function of the minister and the Italian jurisdiction.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Government Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Government
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Government "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Government
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Government English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Government
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Government Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Government
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Government "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Government
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Government There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Government
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Government When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Government
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Government
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Government Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Government
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Government This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Government
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Government "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Government
