"No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again"

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Source : "European leaders predict 2012 will be worse than 2011" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.

Giorgio Napolitano

#Commitment Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Order Quotes

“As you show these principles over and over , it becomes engrained into how we think. And, when your kids see that, they begin doing it to their siblings. And so we've seen that as well. Many of these aspects I already knew as a parent but, as I study them more, there are more avenues that I can apply in my own parenting and I'm seeing how my kids are watching how I (interact) with my wife and (with) each of them and I watch how they (interact) with each other.”
“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.”
“Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.”
“The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--”
“Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.”
“Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.”
“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”
“The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving.”

Source : Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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