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A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life. Saint Ambrose
Life Future Duty Nothing Other Virtuous Recognized Future Life Also Which Useful Helpful Comparison Chosen Christians Two
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. Saint Ambrose
You Martyrs Crowns Take Taken Contests Away
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways. Saint Ambrose
Me Will Own Ways Those Thou Strive Redeemed Lord Am Repent Blood Sins Amend Forget Created Whom Thine
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. Salvatore Quasimodo
Man Valid Lyric Dramatic Religious Civic Only Poetry Categories Content Endorsement Formal Which Expression
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. Salvatore Quasimodo
Men Imitates Possibilities Characters Writer He His Stories Them Novels
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. Salvatore Quasimodo
Circle Poet Birth Must Threat Through Attempts He Reach Because Said Always Cultural Existing Expected Order Literary Break Center Again Now Alarm
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. Salvatore Quasimodo
Dictatorship First Own Mark Considers Some My Own Poetic Polemic Began Movement Experiments Justification Origin Even
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. Salvatore Quasimodo
Time Waiting People Men Other Poems Had Read Readers Still Were Letters
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Salvatore Quasimodo
Age First Too Would Easy Sediment Poetic Recover Point Sounds Been Continuity Linked Formal Which Us Decorum Explosion Preoccupation Nuclear Interrupted
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. Salvatore Quasimodo
Day Solitude Dark Poet Starts Finds Dialogue His Diary Yields Landscape Lethal Night
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. Salvatore Quasimodo
Poet Own Tradition His Internationalism
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. Salvatore Quasimodo
Life Dreams Man Acceptance Poverty Sign Detachment Finds Misery He Contains Longer Him Redemption Within Opposition Itself Which Illness Image
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral. Salvatore Quasimodo
Struggle Political Political Power Power Bitter Religious Seemingly Neutral Protagonist Frequently Said Always Been Itself Which Even
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. Salvatore Quasimodo
Creative Words Poet Judgment Punish Moral Someone Poetic Prophetic Never True True Poet His Order Scripture Certainty Uses Resistance Belongs
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. Salvatore Quasimodo
Example Has-Been Importance Know Been Shining Modern Europeans Conscience Resistance
We would go to visit a wholesaler, say in Napoli. We would go out, have a very long lunch, mozzarellas, wine. We would reach an agreement. And then the client would pay with a cheque that was postdated by six months, nine months. They were financing themselves by delaying their payments. Sandro Veronesi
Wine Long Pay Lunch Nine Nine Months Months Say Visit Out Would Financing Reach Client Cheque Go Were Very Six Themselves Then Payments Agreement
I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.' Sandro Veronesi
Myself Thought Saw Kinds New Shop Stores Body Sock
The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it. Sandro Veronesi
Work Time You Change Innovation World Remember Too Much Will Long Important Think Too Changed Our Our Lives About Something Risk Take Betting Make Because Important Thing Get Trying Much Lives Thing By The Time
Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid. Sandro Veronesi
Wise Age Women Men Stupid Become Energy More Greater Years Than Either Number
There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres. Sandro Veronesi
Management Programs About No-One Involved Waste Appliances Thinks
Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery. Sandro Veronesi
Women Group Consumers Italian Women Are European Among Largest
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time. Sergio Leone
Time Me Eyes Other Way See Than America Same Any Same Time Any Other Way European Fascinates
I think that if you don't do the full analysis of what the origin of the electrical power is, where it comes from, how you get batteries into these cars, what the cost is in terms of CO2 and the environment, I think the analysis that we are going to save the planet with electric cars is nonsense. Sergio Marchionne
You Car Power Think Analysis Batteries Cost Environment Terms How Nonsense Get Going Where Planet CO2 Full Electric Electric Cars Electrical Origin Save
If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster. Sergio Marchionne
You Faster Put Sticker Go Ferrari Any Toaster
Being small, cute is going to do nothing. Sergio Marchionne
Cute Nothing Small Going Being
If you look at Jeep, Ram, and the premium brands, those are brands that will survive. Sergio Marchionne
You Will Ram Those Look Survive Brands Premium
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