"My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination."

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Nico

#Dad Quotes #Italian Quotes #Half Quotes

“[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.”
“You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.”

Source : Lillian Hellman (1943). “The North Star: A Motion Picture about Some Russian People”
“I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.”

Source : "The Oscars? Oh no, not again..." by Anita Chaudhuri, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2000.
“... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The one is irrevocable, the other is, as termed by men, impending. To the former all must unreservedly submit, inasmuch as it is fixed and settled. God however, is able to alter or repeal it. As the harm that must result from such a change will be greater than if the decree had remained unaltered, all, therefore, should willingly acquiesce in what God hath willed and confidently abide by the same.”
“It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK
“If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.”
“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”
“See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.”

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