And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.


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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr...
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الشكوك ليست أبدًا مغالاة ، الشك ، دائمًا الشك ، بهذه ال�...
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always ...
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It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it prope...
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Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you...
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Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective;...
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Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one lo...
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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevanc...
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The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous...
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In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false informati...
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everythi...
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La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser cre...
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The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm wha...
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d...
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is...
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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel un...
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I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that...
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe...
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respira...
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But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes ...
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[...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions becom...
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأن...
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حتىٰ الآن لا تصلح الهواتف الجوَّالة إلَّا للأزواج الخا...
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But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...
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L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritt...
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To survive, you must tell stories.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn...
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tact...
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Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part...
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
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The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
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The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
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For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
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I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
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And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
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But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
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