Attilio Gori - Woodworking machinery supplier, selling both new and second-hand goods.
Weddings in Cortona - Providing wedding planning services, has pictures of the town's council chamber and of past cerimonies.
Restaurant Preludio - Establishment details and images, plus information on catering services, equipment hire and event assistance.
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-- Thomas Jefferson "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 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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to Business and Economy There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
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-- Giraudoux Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Business and Economy Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Business and Economy
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy 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 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
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-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Business and Economy
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Business and Economy
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
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-- Ernie Kovacs Business and Economy No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Business and Economy
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Business and Economy
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Business and Economy
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Business and Economy Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Business and Economy
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Business and Economy Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Business and Economy
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Business and Economy If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy
