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In short, science as such is in no way a guarantee of wisdom or humanity.

— Ernesto Galli della Loggia

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By now, the only thing that seems to keep us together is the desire to share the state budget, to carve up the spoils.

Reclaiming this past and our own tradition in order to rediscover ourselves: this is the urgent task facing a country that knows and thinks.

If God exists, if there is a revelation, it cannot be anything other than that of Jesus Christ. Only here is there this moving solidarity with huma condition. You may not believe it, but all this is unparalleled.

With the Lega ideology, you can be an excellent mayor in Varese, and even in Verona, but you can't govern Italy. [...] With the Lega Nord ideology, at best, you can be in government, but that is something entirely different from governing.

Knowledge, Past and Beauty are the three great perspectives that have always defined and, in many ways, encompass our entire history. For centuries, these three perspectives have kept this small Mediterranean peninsula at the centre of the world's attention, carrying the name of Italy beyond all borders.

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