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They said about us<\/p><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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I traveled around the world many times but i never met anything similar to this. Thousands of people come here to listen to a lesson about Beethoven, to visit an exhibition about the origin of light, or to attend a conference with a philosopher. The Meeting has to be experienced, lived in order to understand its full and extraordinary combination of vitality and gravitas.
\nJoseph H. H. Weiler, University professor at New York University<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Meeting where nothing ends, and everything restarts.
\nWilliam Congdon<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Bible teaches us that man was created in the image of God; this means that we are spiritual beings, that we need spiritual nourishment. The Meeting incarnates this great intuition.
\nAharon Appelfeld, writer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Meeting... had i been able to live longer in it, perhaps my life would have changed: no more violence, no more hate, no rivalry or competition but only collaboration among friends, a deep understanding among people of good will. Did i meet a kind of sanctity here? I'd say so.
\nEug\u00e9ne Ionesco, playwright<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Thanks to a friendship of many years, i have learned many things from the Rimini Meeting. The most important perhaps is that the basis of dialogue is the difference. The dialogue, in fact, must be based on an encounter, because in an encounter the person has been placed in your life, another person is there so you can begin to discover her or him.
\nWael Farouq, Professor at the Sacred Heart Catholic University of Milan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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There was a people there, that is, there was an immense crowd of common people who had the desire to stay together but also to meet people that are different from them.
\nGianpaolo Pansa<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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They created a place where you can meet a subject. The presence is this: a place. The generation of the adult, that makes one's own life present outside itself, is a place where you can meet a subject.
\nFather Luigi Giussani<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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I found a great openness, a great receptivty of different ideas, a great welcome, profoundly religious. But religious with warmth and acceptance of the three religions. At the Meeting everybody knew very well that i was a truly Jewish believer, but they desired to listen to me. (...)
\nBut their warmth and their deep openness made me happy.
\nChaim Potok, writer<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Through places like the Meeting we can build a new generation of media.
\nWilliam McGurn, a columnist with the Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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I never had such an audience; after meeting these young people in Rimini i am more optimistic about the future of humanity.
\nAbdus Salam, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1979<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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I am happy to go to the Meeting because there they build a real culture.
\nEnnio Morricone, musician<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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A precious item of the system Italy.
\nFranco Frattini, former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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What amazes me about this Meeting is the fact that all the subjects are connected to each other; you have a different way of talking about things.
\nJohn Waters, a columnist with the Irish Times<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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This first visit left great emotions and great marks on my heart looking at a great Christian community.
\nTahani Al-Jibaly, Vice President of the Constitutional Court in Egypt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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We share with you the certainty that unity through diversity is an ideal to embrace, not something to fear. We have never seen an event like the Meeting, able to bring together people with sincerity. Each one of the persons encountered here has left a mark on us.
\nIvan Caracalla, Director of the Caracalla Dance Theatre<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You can leave violence behind by building a true friendship. This is what i see even here at the Rimini Meeting, a friendship that generates a great cultural event.
\nS.Ecc. Mons. Ignatius Kaigama, Nigerian Archbishop<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Bring, in this time of uncertainty, your longing for certainty. It is for all this that you represent a human resource for our country. Make it even worthier.
\nGiorgio Napolitano, former President of the Italian Republic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Here you have the feeling that somebody or something was waiting for you [...] Tell the truth to today's mankind, first of all by living it.
\nEugenio Mazzarella, Professor of Philosophy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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It's a wonderful place. What mostly impressed me are the volunteers, the young faces. Here's the vital power of faith. I'd like to bring this experience to China.
\nTianeyue Wu, Professor of Philosophy, China<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Here i'm struck by inspiration and wonder. We want to learn what we see here. The doors are open and you feel no interest in politics which drives people to do things, not are lessons given. You can feel faith, and is free.
\nVladimir Vorob'ev, Rector of Orthodox University Saint Tichon<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Everyone should vist the Meeting's exhibiton about Europe! It shows our past and our future.
\nEnrico Letta, former President of the Council of Ministers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Here at the Meeting i'm really experiencing the enthusiasm, positivity and energy i've always heard about.
\nAlberto Onetti, Mind the Bridge Foundation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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