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Assisi - Images & Emotions - Photo gallery with many color and black-and-white photographs: they are the result of the work and experience of Andrea Angelucci.
The Restoration of the Basilica - Rebuilding and strengthening the basilica after the quakes of 1997, with photographs and diagrams. A paper by Giorgio Croci and Mario Biritognolo.
Patriarchal Basilica of St. Francis - Official site. History, art, life and activity. The documentation center, the vocational center, the museum-treasure of St. Francis and the Perkins collection. The Basilica: architecture, frescos, stained glass and sculpture decorations.
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Assisi The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Assisi Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Assisi In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Assisi When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Assisi I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Assisi Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Assisi The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Assisi Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with 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 The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Assisi "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) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Assisi Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Assisi We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Assisi Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Assisi My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Assisi "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain 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 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Assisi Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Assisi Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Assisi "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Assisi Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Assisi "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Assisi The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Assisi "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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 Assisi
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