"The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English."

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Source : Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.36, Northwestern University Press

Jean Giono

#Said Quotes #Libel Quotes

“Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power....”
“My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.”
“To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”
“A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.”

Source : Concept of Mind (1949) introduction
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!”
“Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.”

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