Pigelleto Nature Reserve - The Pigelleto Nature Reserve extends over a territory of 862 hectars between Siena and Grosseto. It is located in Piancastagnaio, South-East from Monte Amiata.
Merigar - European seat of the Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhist Community, at the foot of Amiata.
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
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-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
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1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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-- Mark Russell "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy He would make a lovely corpse.
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
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"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
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-- George Bus To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism All you need is love.
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