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I once conducted an informal survey, posing the following question: “If you are using more words than somebody wants to hear, do you want that person to pretend to listen or to stop you?” Of the scores of people I approached, all but one expressed a preference to be stopped. Their answers gave me courage by convincing me that it is more considerate to interrupt people than to pretend to listen.

Alla Milano-Sanremo del 1946, Coppi, scalatore perfetto, scollina in solitudine sul Passo del Turchino e arriva con 14 minuti sul secondo. Niccolò Carosio annuncia: “Primo Fausto Coppi. In attesa degli altri, trasmettiamo musica da ballo”.

Aneddoti

And death was declared.

Richard Webb-Stevens

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Plato

It is not things in themselves that trouble us, but our opinions of things.

Epictetus