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Italian Forum - Forum dedicated to Italy and its culture. Travel information, search your family roots, Italian food, arts, politics, and chat rooms.
The New Era - Magazine about philosophy, religion,and spirituality in general, politics, and economy.
Italy Online - Online community and directory.
Marianna Club - Date, friendship, chat, and classifieds for friendship and love in Italy and abroad. Requires registration.
CERFE Group - Conducts a scientific research programme on the current situation of human societies around the world. Information, studies, and publications. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Italia Mia Italian Community - A guide to Italian and Italian-American communities, forums, newsgroups, chat rooms and personals.
Italian Citizenship - Requirements and information on Italian citizenship for people of Italian descent.
Centro Studi La Runa - Cultural traditionalist association devoted to history of religions, Indo-European culture, folklore and traditions.
Lega del Filo d'Oro - Assistance, rehabilitation, education, and re-integration into society for people who are deafblind and have multisensory deficits.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Society and Culture To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana 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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Society and Culture Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Society and Culture It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Society and Culture It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Society and Culture The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy 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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Society and Culture "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Society and Culture "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Society and Culture You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra Society and Culture Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Society and Culture Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Society and Culture Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Society and Culture Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Society and Culture The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Society and Culture Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
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