„In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.“
— Gianluigi Buffon Italian association football player 1978
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„How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.“
— Gore Vidal, Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch March 380
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