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I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country … No other country has such human capital.

Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini

Well, what do you talk then? You talk coffees?

Tilly

Simply planning, or engaging in, a protest is not, and should never be, a reason for arrest.

The Independent

And so to the Urals, where medics are reported to have removed a tiny fir tree from a man’s lung, after he complained of chest pains. Before doctors opened him up, they were convinced he had lung cancer. Now, they’re convinced he inhaled a seed, which sprouted inside him.

Ian Sample

It was all in my head - my father would play the piano and I would have a mental party in the hole in the ground.

How dare you presume to tell me a story, and then not tell me the best possible story?

David Simon

Reviled for its ugliness and feared because of its unstoppable invasion of the Australian landscape, the cane toad consistently rates as the most despised exotic pest, rivalled only by the feral cat.

Toni O’Loughlin