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In politics, ideas are important, but to put those ideas into practice, you have to convince others to behave in a way that will make them a reality.

— Ciriaco De Mita

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If something difficult seems easy to you, it means you haven't understood anything.

I believe in words. God gave humans the power of speech so that they could communicate. A person's morality is the relationship between their words and their intentions.

We have become a country that does not think, does not grow, no longer has hope, and is drowning in amoralism, which is worse than immorality.

Some people might be surprised, but I don't have any prejudices against Di Pietro either.
Provided he shakes off the delusion that he is God's judge.

[Avellino] It's a city where intellectuals and people of culture hide, and those who aren't people of culture thrive.

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