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In Italy, poverty has decreased, it seems paradoxical and countercurrent, but these are the statistics. Feel free to make noise but these are the statistics.

— Renato Brunetta

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I would legally force children to leave the house at 18.

If anyone else doesn't, I apologize to Marina Biagi and her children for the irresponsible words spoken by those who should simply remain silent.

I consider off-wave to be illegal interceptions.

Public work has long been used as a social safety net, especially by women who went out shopping during working hours.

Starting from Article 1 [of the Italian Constitution]: establishing that Italy is a democratic Republic founded on work means absolutely nothing.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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