Month: February 2011

“A wise traveler never depreciates his own country.”

— Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (1707 – 1793)

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“To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.”

— Giorgio Armani (born 1934)

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“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never.  And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

— Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909)

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“I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.”

— Umberto Guidoni, first European on board the International Space Station (born 1954)

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“Money is not everything.  My ambition was football itself, not the money I’d make from it.  If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that’s fine.  But I don’t spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.”

— Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974)