Quote by Luigi Barzini
Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleas

Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood. – Luigi Barzini

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I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the worlds cuisines, past and present, was available on request. – Luigi Barzini

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Libraries
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Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing. – Luigi Barzini

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Diplomacy
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To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. – Luigi Barzini

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Imagination
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Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5 – Bible

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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. – R. M. Baumgardy

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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. – Warren Buffett

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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