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The ranges used in this book reflect the guidelines set by LabCorp, a company that provides testing services to nearly 90 percent of doctors' offices, hospitals

Si tratta delle pagine iniziali della primissima edizione de Il senso religioso, pubblicata nel 1958 con l'imprimatur della Curia di Milano e stampata dalla Presidenza Diocesana Milanese della Gioventù Italiana di Azione Cattolica. Del libro uscirono nuove edizioni, rivedute e ampliate, nel 1968, nel 1986 e nel 1997 (Rizzoli).

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

Yet the most powerful argument in favor of antitrust law is one that is rarely made: antitrust law reduces the political power of firms.

wonder, if we in the U.S. stopped buying cocaine and stopped selling heavy weapons across the border, what would happen then? So easy to talk about them. What does it mean when they are also us?

Museums suck," said Billy. The bus rattled along between tan fields. "Right?" said Charlie. "History," said Higgins. "Shit like that.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

Tell me the manner in which a patient commits suicide and I'll tell you how he can be cured

And it's his illusions about what constitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

His guilt is my ticket to the latest and greatest. A guy adapts.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it."

Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

I want to remember exactly what she said, but someone reading this does not mind if it is not exact: Please, says that someone, just choose one or the other and get on with the story. Give me fiction, if you have to—the approximation. Not the truth, along with your doubt.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

Tão lúcida quando fala mas quando escreve fica tão sentimental, oh, a lua, o lago.

Dedilhou o pulso estático numa busca tão intensa que acabou por transferir para o pulso da morta o latejar do próprio dedo inflamado.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, saith the preacher. To which I add, especially husbands. No man is proof against the flatteries of love. At least I am not, and I am glad of it.

Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Jordan. He more than anyone knew the toll this enquiry had taken on them all, especially Travis. She was a loner, like himself, and he knew that she was probably one of the best detectives