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Baldassare Castiglione

"Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body."

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2003). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.300, Courier Corporation

Baldassare Castiglione

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“A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.”
“A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.”
“There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.”

Source : "Sean Penn: What I've Learned". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 12, 2012.
“The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.”
“The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.”
“Pedialyte's a super-Gatorade that they give infants when they're dehydrated. It's on all our riders now. Drink a liter of grape Pedialyte and no hangover. The guys from Pantera taught us that trick.”
“The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.”

Source : "This much I know: Len Goodman". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.
“I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.”

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