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Italy, Orson Welles

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! - Orson Welles as the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949)

Travel, Western Proverb

He that travels far knows much. - Western Proverb 멀리 여행하는 자는 많이 안다. - 서양속담

Art, Aldo Leopold

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

Growth, Edward Abbey

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness. - Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, "Water", p. 114 (1968) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Growth

Religion·Faith, Fyodor Dostoevsky

If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils

Appearance, Agnes Repplier

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. - Agnes Repplier

Action, Beaumont and Fletcher

Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment. - Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Action