"We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow."

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Source : Iris Origo (2011). “War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944”, p.101, Allison & Busby

Iris Origo

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“I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more, or why do you not have singers, or why don't you sing? I think it's because, if I would have words for what I am doing, I I could write. But I really don't. It's a whole different thing. And I think it's one of the beauty of instrumental music is that it can be background. It can be what people call "easy listening." But it's really one of those things where it's as much as you are willing to give it.”
“Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.”
“My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture.”
“I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.”
“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
“I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.”
“Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.”
“I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.”

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