In Modern Culture
Prior to the investigation, an artist named Gianni Motti created a piece of artwork, named "mani pulite" based on the scandal. "Mani pulite" (clean hands) was claimed to have been created out of the fat from Silvio Berlusconi's liposuction.
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“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
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