24-12-2008 "In terra di camorra conoscere i meccanismi d'affermazione dei clan, le loro cinetiche d'estrazione, i loro investimenti significa capire come funziona il proprio tempo in ogni misura e non soltanto nel perimetro geografico della propria terra. Porsi contro i clan diviene una guerra per la sopravvivenza, come se l'esistenza stessa, il cibo che mangi, le labbra che baci, la musica che ascolti, le pagine che leggi non riuscissero a concederti il senso della vita, ma solo quello della sopravvivenza. E cosi' conoscere non e' piu' una traccia di impegno morale. Sapere, capire diviene una necessita'. L'unica possibile per considerarsi ancora uomini degni di respirare." (Roberto Saviano - Gomorra) 25-09-2007 "Sure, the principle that politics were a service to render free of charge like previewed a time article 50 of the Albertino Charter, had been abandoned long time ago. Since 1913 the parliaments were attributed themselves one modest indemnity, but only as reimbursement expenses. Indemnity confirmed and increased in the 1925 from the fascist regimen. The idea that the public money had to be 'respected', however, was diffused. With some tip quite of moral asceticism. Like that one of Enrico De Nicholas who, elected temporary head of the State the 28 June of 1946, taken thus seriously 'provvisoriet�� of its role, than [... ] 'never used the 11 million annual ones previewed for its role and did the president paying himself.� ." (Gian Antonio Sella, Sergio Rizzo - La Casta) 21-05-2007 "FOLCO: In America, once I have gone home of a physicist that won the Nobel. I've asked him "How you've become so much more good of the others? What have you done of different to the university, have you studied more?'" And he has said "No. While the others didn't do whether to study, me every weekend went or to climb a mountain or to explore the funds of the sea. In that way I've learned the things that have made me different. (Folco Terzani - La fine e' il mio inizio) 20-12-2006 "...for a follower imitating the teacher's steps is pratically impossible. Each one has his own way of seeing the life, to live together with the difficulties and the conquests. Teaching means to show that it is possible. Learn means to become possible for ourself." (Petrus - The Pilgrimage) 22-09-2006 "At the end, both optimist and pessimist die. But they enyoj life in a completely different way." (Paulo Coelho, mentioning Shimon Peres - Like the flowing river) 31-08-2006 "I am Valentino Rossi. I want to be a person, not an icon. I've been born in Urbino, at 16 february 1979. From Graziano Rossi and Stefania Palma... Yes, is true, I was good at school. Sure, I did well a lot of other things. But I pleased to ride. Fast, in the fastest way. With my motorcycle. And I did it. Imagine if I didn't try it." (Valentino Rossi - l'Autobiografia) 10-05-2006 "Trust - Trust is the personal believe in correctness of s.th. . Is the deep conviction of truth and rightness, and can not be enforced. If you gain s.o. trust you have established an interpersonal relationship, based on communication, shared values and experiences. Trusrt always depdends on mutuality. Now a microchip does that task for you ... Main difference is that now you CAN'T decide ... 'Cause they already decided ... and they already decided NOT to trust you!" (Source www.no1984.org - Download the video) 11-17-2005 There are some corporations that are sincerely worried about the compatibility environmental of their own activities and they invest in search to reduce the impact. But they are few. The greatest part of them, and above all of the great ones multinationals, make only public relationships. Obviously, when Monsanto says to be "friend of the environment" it is simply false, ridiculous. And to realize it, simply look at what they do, rather than their declarations. (Source Carta.org - Jeremy Rifkin - see also "Ecocidio") 09-27-2005 In 1956 the geologist M. King Hubbert, foresaw that the oil production from the American oil wells, ite would have followed one "curve to bell" (or gaussiana), passing for a maximum toward 1971. To that time, nobody believed it. (Source Aspo Italia) 03-02-2005 "To think well of us, is really this way: they are not the medicines that take care of the body, but the body that takes care of him using itself the medicines. The orthopedic doctor puts again to place the broken bone and it plasters him well, but the recovery it is made by the same body... or of his "vital strength", to say using a lilltle bit of magic of magic. The fact is that today's physicians they take the whole worth and they have very less respect of the wizards than it had the old Schweitzer". (Tiziano Terzani - Un altro giro di giostra) 02-28-2005 "Everything is not eternal, everything comes and it goes: also the pain." (Tiziano Terzani - Un altro giro di giostra) 10-02-2005 "Before speaking... bushels silent. The old ones taught me, you keep silent for not talking to blunder, you keep silent for to think, keeps silent because a silence is not so ugly among the words." (Marco Paolini - L'anno passato) 12-06-2004 "I now want to reveal you a secret - it said the crow - I come in this clearing because I have the impression that the small ones have returned. Certain days in summer it seems me to perceive around here their presence. I hear their voices and to the evening, before all the beasts fall asleep, I feel them lowly laugh." From boy I had also learned the idiom of the animals. Digging in my memory to exhume entirely not that secret language lost, I have asked to the crow how come of this history knew. "I am - he has answered with sadness - the last crow that the little boys raised in that 1963 distant spring." [note:year of the catastrophe of the Vajont] (Mauro Corona - Il volo della martora) 1990 "Capitan, my capitan! ... Thanks guys, thanks." [note:ending movie scene] (Robin Williams - Carpe Diem)