Mario Monti Quotes
I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.
 
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	When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.   
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	There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.   
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	Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.   
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	The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.   
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	I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.   
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	We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.   
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	Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.   
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	I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.   
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	'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.   
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	The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.   
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	I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.   
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	If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.   
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	I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.   
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	I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.   
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	We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.   
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	Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.   
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	Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?   
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	The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.   
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	Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'   
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	I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.   
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	When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate.   
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	The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.   
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	I was world champion, but I was never able to celebrate it. It was a joke for me.   
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	I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					